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At SPBGMA over the weekend, we spoke several times with D.A. Callaway, Talent Coordinator at Silver Dollar City, and the reigning 2013 SPBGMA Promoter of Year for his work on Silver Dollar's Bluegrass & BBQ festival, held in May at

The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has announced that registration for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass Events and hotel reservations will open March 1, 2013, for bluegrass music’s annual industry gathering and family reunion which will, for the first time, be

Sierra Hull is spending this early part of 2013 tracking for her third Rounder Records album. They are recording at Ben Folds' Studio, the old RCA Studio A, designed by Chet Atkins in 1964. Vance Powell is engineering. In just the few

The winners of the 2013 SPBGMA Fan's Choice Awards have been announced here in Nashville at their 39th annual convention. Performances at the awards show included Nothin' Fancy, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, The Gibson Brothers, Rarely Herd, Randy Waller & the

Terry and I have been enjoying spending time here at SPBGMA with so many of the fine folks who create, promote, broadcast and write this wonderful bluegrass music we love so well. Roland White spent much of the afternoon at the

The winners of the 2013 SPBGMA Band Competition have just been announced here at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. Ten finalists were announced after yesterday's first round, and they all performed again this afternoon to determined the final order. And the winners

Things were hopping in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville last night here at SPBGMA. We caught Dave Adkins & Republik Steele in a lobby alcove performing their current single, The Way I Roll.  

On Thursday at SPBGMA, Rhonda Vincent shared a fun story from the Twitterverse. As her fans well understand, Rhonda is a tireless proponent of social media, spending bus and plane time updating her Facebook and Twitter feeds, sharing her travels with

Here's our Very Special Bluegrass Correspondent, John Goad, with a report from the first day at SPBGMA.   Get you some!

Travis Book, bassist and vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, and his wife, singer and songwriter Sarah Siskind, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Ruby Dell Book was born on Thursday morning (1/31) at 4:10 a.m. (EST), weighing in at