Author: John Curtis Goad

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Festival in Denton, NC.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Boxcar Pinion Festival in Chattanooga, TN.  

Austin, Texas-based band Wood & Wire, which has recently released its second full-length album, The Coast, is one of the most energetic young bluegrass bands I’ve heard recently. Their music is an interesting combination of rough and polished, where solid

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the inaugural Rocky Top Bluegrass Festival in Rocky Top, TN.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Arcadia Bluegrass Festival in Maryland. Go be with 'em.  

Since their beginnings a decade ago, upstate South Carolina’s New River Bluegrass has focused on bluegrass Gospel music, even hitting number one on the Singing News bluegrass chart in 2013 with When I Look Back Down the Road from their

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Big Lick Bluegrass Festival in Oakboro, NC.  

One of my favorite things to do – something I like better than almost anything else – is to attend bluegrass festivals. The great performances, the jamming, the chance to catch up with friends I haven’t seen since the last

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Florida State Bluegrass Festival in Perry, FL.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on three big events going on in Ohio, Virginia, and South Carolina.