Jesse Brock

A lot of fine pickers are nominated for IBMA awards every year, and a chosen few get to cross the stage and pick up a statue. But with five or six nominees in a category, that still leaves plenty of

Jesse Brock is ready to make the leap from sideman to band leader. While he’s working on a solo project, he’s also polishing plans to start not one but two bands focusing on bluegrass and acoustic music. This fall, the mandolin

Tom Adams, Jesse Brock and Marshall Wilborn, fresh from their falling out with Michael Cleveland, are forming a new band and hope to hit the studio this summer. The band doesn't have a name, has no gigs lined up and still

Unexpected news regarding one of the hottest bands on the bluegrass circuit... We have learned that all of the members of Flamekeeper save bandleader Michael Cleveland and new banjo player Charlie Cushman are out of the picture. Guitarist and primary lead vocalist

Wonderful news - Lynn Morris will perform at the 2011 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival this Spring! A very special, one-time reunion of The Lynn Morris Band has been arranged for Sunday, May 1, the final day of the festival. She will

Bluestar is a new "special project" band recently formed to tour in support of Rick Lang's terrific Look To The Light CD. The album features a powerful lineup of bluegrass all-stars on a set of Rick's original Gospel music, several

We caught up with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper earlier this week. They are at Hilltop Studios in Nashville working on their next project for Rounder Records, which they hope to see released sometime this fall, though no date has been

We just got word of a new "part time" band that will performing selected dates starting later in 2010. The group is made up of several prominent musicians who have made their careers primarily as sidemen, so it will be