• Adam Steffey solo project coming soon

    Crossroads Music has announced a June release for New Primitive, a new solo project from Adam Steffey, on their new imprint, Organic Records. It will feature the award-winning mandolinist with The Boxcars on a mix of old time and bluegrass music,

  • New banjos, mandolin from Morgan Monroe

    The folks at Morgan Monroe have introduced a number of new instruments which may be of interest to the bluegrass/acoustic market. They are even giving away one of the new banjo models in July from their Facebook page to help

  • CBA Bluegrass Camp for Kids

    The California Bluegrass Association will add a new feature this year during their 38th Annual Father's Day Festival in Grass Valley, CA. It's a formal, four-day workshop for young grassers, ages 8-16. This is in addition to their Kids on Bluegrass program, which

  • The Fiction Twins – Toshio Watanabe

    The popularity of bluegrass music in Japan is a subject well known and widely discussed among US and European grassers. Since the postwar occupation of the island nation in the late 1940s, the Japanese have warmed to many aspects of

  • Utility infielder sought for Dollywood

    The good folks at Dollywood asked us to pass along that they are on the hunt for a utility player for the 2013 season, which runs from April 2013 to January 4, 2014. The successful applicant must play fiddle, and will be

  • Brandon Shuping back to the Gabeharts

    Jim & Valerie Gabehart have welcomed mandolinist Brandon Shuping back to the band. He's been a regular, recurring member, and Jim tells us that it's either Brandon's 3rd or 4th tenure with the band over the past dozen or so years. In

  • Mandolin Mashup at Berklee

    This evening (2/12), the Berklee College of Music in Boston will host its 7th annual Mandolin Mashup. It was created by the late John McGann when he joined the faculty at Berklee in 2006, to highlight his most promising students. The

  • Bibey & Benson CD due March 12

    The long-awaited twin mandolin project from Wayne Benson and Alan Bibey, The Mandolin Chronicles, has been announced for a March 12 release on Pinecastle. It celebrates not only these two stellar musicians, but also the classic prewar instruments they each