Sonny Osborne

The iconic Camp Springs Labor Day Festival at Blue Grass Park is slated to return this weekend, August 30-September 1. Carlton Haney started North Carolina's first multi-day bluegrass festival on this rural site in the northwestern part of the state

Lincoln Hensley with one of Sonny Osborne's vintage Vega banjos Lincoln Hensley is a young man in his mid-20s with an old soul. He loves and plays bluegrass music (with Tennessee Bluegrass Band), endorses for one banjo company and runs another,

Pat Morris, Anysley Porchak, and Lincoln Hensley present check Back at the beginning of December, we shared information about an auction being run on Facebook to sell Sonny Osborne's Stelling Sonflower prototype banjo, as a benefit for the IBMA Trust Fund. This

We have all been missing Sonny Osborne since he passed away in October of 2021. Sonny's wonderful music with brother Bobby, plus his outsized personality and wit, left a legacy that will never be forgotten in bluegrass music. Now comes word

Everyone who has followed bluegrass over the past 70 years should be familiar with the great Sonny Osborne. One half of the legendary Osborne Brothers who revolutionized bluegrass music in the 1950s and '60s, Sonny played a style of banjo

The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced the 2022 inductees into their Banjo Hall of Fame. The Museum has been honoring banjoists thusly since 1998, when they were strictly focused on four string (tenor and plectrum) banjo. Opening

Sonny Osborne at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival in 1987 - photo by Barry Bower The Boards of Directors of both the International Bluegrass Music Association and the IBMA Trust Fund have adopted a joint resolution honoring the late Sonny Osborne. A

This week, the first Friday without our beloved Sonny Osborne, we thought we would do something a bit different. Since Sonny is no longer able to answer everyone's questions, we instead asked several prominent people in bluegrass to share their

Sonny Osborne (left) at Darrington in 1987 - photo © Barry Brower/The Osborne Brothers Most musicians hope to leave a mark on the world through their art: a particularly well-written lyric, a ferocious banjo lick, perhaps even a style of playing

Sonny, Who came up with the Gitjo? The pickin that you did on that was great! Also, when you worked for Bill Monroe, I was wondering In those days if they had you to do any of the driving? Thanks, Mark K. Driving Mister