Noted Nashville fiddle player and instructor, Megan Lynch, has announced the release of her latest instructional book, 16 Easy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddle Songs, published by Bethany Olds Music and Troy Nelson Music. As the title suggests, this new manual is
The Violin Shop on 8th Avenue, in the Berry Hill area of Nashville, was broken into on Sunday, December 18, at about 5:11-5:13 a.m. local time. The intruder busted in the partly glazed front door with a sledgehammer, stole five violins,
The four years prior to COVID was a happy time for Kate Lee O'Connor. The talented young vocalist and fiddler was just graduating from Belmont University and planning a wedding to her soulmate, Forrest O'Connor. The two had gone from
Andy Leftwich needs no introduction for bluegrass lovers. For over fifteen years he served as a fiddler for Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and has appeared on countless recordings with other artists as a session musician. The American Fiddler, Leftwich's third
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - photo by Kaitlyn Raitz I opened my report on the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards in Raleigh last month with this vignette... Arriving with my wife, Arielle, at the 2022 International Bluegrass Music Association awards show at the Duke Energy
Annually, the small town of Mansfield, Missouri is the setting of a commemoration to Laura Ingalls Wilder, best known for her book series, Little House on The Prairie. The books, and the television series they spawned, were based on her
Jason Carter, prolific fiddler and mainstay of both The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCourys, has a new album releasing this week, his first in 25 years. If you've caught his fiery performances on stage, or in the studio
Compass Records is dropping the first look at the next Michael Cleveland album this week, a hopeful grasser called Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again). The much-awarded fiddler, chosen a dozen times by his peers in the IBMA as Fiddle Player
Andy Leftwich, truly among the most gifted and skillful musicians on the bluegrass scene today, has another single release this week from Mountain Home Music. Taken from his upcoming American Fiddler album, this one, Made In France, finds Leftwich exploring a
Uncle Dick Hutchinson from northeastern Oklahoma was an influential figure to aspiring fiddlers with his instrumental compositions and interpretations of common tunes in the old time canon. Combining new and previously released recordings, Fiddle Tunes From Uncle Dick Hutchinson is
