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I’m on a flight across North America right now, the second of three legs of my trip home from our recent European tour. This seemed like a good time to write this column, because for one thing the deadline is

This is the third in a fun new series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so well known, about some of their interests as well as about the music that they love. Today's guest is Bob

For the past 7 years, the venerable Grand Masters Fiddler Championship has been held in Nashville during the IBMA World of Bluegrass week in late September. It had been hosted at the Opryland theme park from 1972 until it was left

A new organization has been chartered in Australia to promote bluegrass and old time music on the mainland and in New Zealand. This all grew out of a meeting last month in Harrietville, VIC, the site of a popular bluegrass festival

Kindred Records has released a pair of tracks to radio from JD Messer and Sanctified, a bluegrass Gospel group from Kentucky and West Virginia. The two are Messer originals, Lunch Box Letter and Peter Stepped Out, available to programmers now from

Speaking of bluegrass in the movies... The History of Future Folk is set to premiere in New York at the end of the month. It's a science fiction comedy about a pair of aliens who come to Earth to destroy humanity,

Bill Warren sent along this gallery of images from a Dale Ann Bradley concert he attended last month in Flat Rock, Michigan.  

Here's another gallery of Andy Garrigue's photos from MerleFest 2013, this time focusing on The Avett Brothers and their flamboyant cellist, Joe Kwon. Andy shared these few words about their show. “While the attention is often focused on Scott and Seth

"They're gonna put me in the movies..." So sang Buck Owens (and Ringo Starr) in the mid 1960s in Act Naturally, a hit song that told the story of a country boy set for stardom in the movie biz. In 2014,

As has already been noted, George Jones had a significant influence on bluegrass music, most notably on those whose voice was still being formed in the early days of bluegrass. Rhonda Vincent has praised him for helping her to find hers. As