• Ross Holmes set to release Overture, July 10

    Texas fiddler Ross Holmes has been playing around the edges of bluegrass music for his whole career. Grassers first noticed his highly-technical playing with Cadillac Sky after he made the move to Nashville. When that group dissolved, Holmes found work

  • Whatever happened to Samantha Snyder?

    We have long enjoyed covering family bands here at Bluegrass Today. It is always fun watching young musicians interacting with each other, and with audiences from the stage, and often we see them grow and mature into seasoned young adult

  • Stephen Burwell stepping away from Doyle Lawson

    Stephen Burwell with Quicksilver at the 2019 Darrington Bluegrass Festival - photo by Eric Frommer Fiddler Stephen Burwell has announced that he is stepping down from his position with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver after more than five years. The talented bowman grew

  • Honor Your Superhero with Jason Barie

    Do you know what today is? It's National Superhero Day, when we are encouraged to honor superheroes, both real and fictional. Young and old, we can most of us remember having a favorite comic book hero, be it Superman, Wonder

  • Tom Reeves passes

    Bluegrass lovers in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania are without one of their favorites, as Tom Reeves passed away at his home in Aberdeen, MD on April 8, 2020. He was 86 years of age. Born Thomas Earl Reeves in 1934,

  • Richard Greene photographer

    Richard Greene is well known as an innovative and influential fiddle player who first attained prominence with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1966. Alongside his musical life Greene has, starting as a young teenager, been obsessed with

  • Arthur Conner passes

    Arthur Conner, celebrated violin maker in southwestern Virginia, died yesterday at his home in Copper Hill, VA. He was 95 years of age. He was something of a folk hero in his part of the state, renowned for his beautiful fiddles