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On June 21, Josh Williams and Dani Flowers celebrated the birth of their first child, Wyatt Augustus Williams. By the numbers, Wyatt came in at 8 lbs, 5 oz stretching out to 21.75 ''. Josh is the guitarist and harmony vocalist with Rhonda

This week young bluegrassers in central North Carolina are hard at work boning up on their musical chops at the Youth Bluegrass Camps in Cary, NC. Located just outside of North Carolina's Research Triangle, these camps are sponsored and administered

Serious followers of the Gibson Guitar company know the rich and varied history of this iconic American company. What started with one man, Orville Gibson, making mandolins in Kalamazoo, MI has grown to a large manufacturing and marketing concern building

There are just a few days left in IBMA second round voting, and some things have surprised me this time around: One is how few “for your consideration” solicitation emails I’ve actually received. Perhaps I’ve dropped off of mailing lists, and

If the name Cody Hull sounds familiar, there's a good reason. He's the older brother of bluegrass/Americana darling Sierra Hull, and the two grew up playing bluegrass together as youngsters. And like his little sis, Cody has embarked on a career

Friends of bluegrass musician Wade Cox, who died unexpectedly in April at 43, are hard at work memorializing their fallen companion. They are raising funds now to complete a recording Wade was working on when he passed, and to purchase a suitable

In the earliest days of bluegrass music it was the product of an authentically rural culture. The only artists making this new music in the 1940s were country and mountain folks whose lives revolved around the land from whence they

If you haven't caught the current edition of Alan Bibey & Grasstowne this season, they've posted this live video from Rockahock Bluegrass in Lenexa, VA. Bibey is still entrenched in the driver's seat, with Greg Luck on guitar, Gena Britt on

This article is a contribution from Tom Feller, one half of the bluegrass performing duo Feller & Hill, studio operator and musician, and a skilled and experienced live audio engineer. It's a follow-up to a piece he wrote in 2014 offering comments

The opening track of Junior Sisk's new album, Poor Boy's Pleasure, kicks of with a moonshining song. I know! I'm as shocked as you are. Sisk, the bluegrass pride of Franklin County, VA is among the most renowned vocalists in our