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We've featured a couple of new tracks from Carley Arrowood, the talented young bluegrass singer and songwriter from North Carolina whose first album from Mountain Home Music is expected later this year. These songs have highlighted Carley's skills as a

Compass Records has released a first single from their upcoming duet project with Mike Barnett, simply titled +1. It boasts a baker's dozen tracks, each featuring Barnett, fiddler with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, alongside fellow virtuosi in the acoustic string

I recently caught up with Brandon Godman (Laurie Lewis, Dale Ann Bradley, Doyle Lawson, etc…) on a morning hike up one of our many hills in San Francisco. Brandon opened The Fiddle Mercantile a couple of years back, and is

Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of Andy Leftwich to the label. Leftwich, former longtime fiddler with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, left the band in 2016 to spend more time at home, and take advantage of opportunities

Gary Vessel is a renowned California Central Valley builder of all things violin and mandolin. He's been at it for over forty years, and started as a teenager building violins. He attended the Violin Making School of America, and while

For many students who have taken classes in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University over the past decade or so, taking a band class or instrumental lesson with Colleen Trenwith was a highlight of

Award-winning fiddler Deanie Richardson is celebrating today. The reigning IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year has just been announced as the latest signee with Nashville's Engelhardt Music Group. Richardson, a veteran of both the country and bluegrass touring scene, is currently

The Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced the hiring of two touring professionals in the bluegrass world to positions on their faculty. Dan Eubanks, bassist with Special Consensus, and Aynsley Porchak,

Al Murphy, a noted old time fiddler from Iowa City, was raised in a family of fiddlers, and mentored by Otis McCray who had played fiddle in Iowa since the 1880s. Folks in the region revere Murphy not only for

Matthew Lin, an extremely talented young musician and one of the brightest lights of the contest fiddle world, died on December 11. He was 19 years of age. He passed several days after suffering extreme complications from a lung surgery to