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Last weekend at RenoFest 2016 served as a coming out party of sorts for Claybank, a youthful North Carolina bluegrass group we first told you about last spring. The band took first place in the band contest, and its $1500 prize, with members

Last week in Nashville, the International Bluegrass Music Association welcomed 26 participants in their annual Leadership Bluegrass program for an intensive, three-day program designed to help identify and nature leaders in all aspects of bluegrass music. The 26 were chosen from

Earlier this year we made mention of bluegrass/newgrass vocalist Ray Cardwell's return to the music business after a number of years away, and today he has introduced his touring band, Tennessee Moon. The group will feature Kyle Wood on mandolin, Richard Starkey

Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, has become known as a go-to person for information on the early recorded music of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Some music fans may recognize his name as

We could learn a thing or two from The Roosevelts. I’m not referring to the recent Ken Burns series, but rather to a self-described “southern-raised indie rock” duo out of Nashville. These Roosevelts are breaking some new ground in the

It's getting on that time of year again, with the eligibility period for the 2016 IBMA Awards drawing nigh, and the new releases are flying fast and furious. We've had several come in so far this week so we'll try

Asheville’s Town Mountain finds some Louisiana groove on their new release, Southern Crescent. It’s hard to find a list of “Best Places To Live” that does not have Asheville, NC on it. The people, the community, the arts, the Blue Ridge Mountains:

Joe Mullins has come up with a clever idea to help introduce his latest album with The Radio Ramblers, Sacred Memories, due from Rebel Records on April 15. When recording this new project, Joe arranged for cameras to capture the proceedings

Mountain Fever Records has released an advance single, I Am A Drifter, the quasi-title track from their next album by Volume Five, Drifter. The highly engaging song is a contribution from award-winning writer Donna Ulisse and Marc Rossi, and sung by Volume

Daniels Mullins, good friend and semi-regular contributor to Bluegrass Today, has launched his own daily radio show on Classic Country Radio, a network of stations in Southern Ohio. It's a family tradition for Daniel, broadcasting on the same station as