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Pinecastle Records has fun a fun way to celebrate the success of Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road's hit single, Bill Monroe's Ol Mandolin. They are teaming up with The Bluegrass Jamboree to give away a brand new Loar LM-310F mandolin, with

Young Tristan Scroggins, mandolinist at large in Nashville, has swiftly entered the running as the hardest working man in bluegrass music. Every time we turn around, we find another new venture or project he is involved with, trying to squeak

One thing bluegrass music has always done is identify future luminaries while they are still young. You can probably think of several examples - from Josh Williams to Sierra Hull, Chris Thile to Michael Cleveland - budding artists with a

Uwharrie Drive, a teenage bluegrass band from central North Carolina, has a new member. Malachi Freeman of Carthage, NC, joins the group on mandolin, replacing Ethan Davis.  Best known as fiddler, the sixteen year old took up the mandolin in 2020.  "I

Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has continued to use his forced down time this year to study and transcribe music from his favorite players. And he makes his efforts available through his Patreon page, where anyone who pledges $5-$10 per month

Brad Laird is one of the busiest bluegrass players you've never met. Unless you live in Georgia, you might not have ever seen him play. But he teaches a large load of students and interacts with thousands of bluegrass lovers

Brooklyn born, San Francisco-based Jody Stecher is an old-time, bluegrass, traditional music artist like no other. He plays mandolin, banjo, fiddle, and guitar and has a long list of credentials, not the least of which is playing mandolin and singing

Bluegrass mandolinist and educator, Scott Napier, has announced the recipients in his second round of giveaways to young aspiring mandolinists at Mandolin Cafe. After going through his extensive collection of vintage LPS, and discovering some duplicates, Scott has used his prominence in

Mandolinist Jesse Brock has certainly made his presence felt in bluegrass circles this past decade, so much so that the IBMA named him their Mandolin Player of the Year in both 2009 and 2015. Still a fairly young man, Jesse has

Bill Torbert Jr, former member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in a nursing home at the age of 81. Born in Washington, DC and raised in DC and Maryland, he