Author: John Curtis Goad

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, looking at the goings on down in Waldo, FL at the Dixieland Fall Bluegrass Festival.  

Each year since 1991, new members have been added to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Since the inaugural class of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, and Earl Scruggs, numerous other bluegrass and traditional music greats have been honored for

While bluegrass isn’t a summer-only music, it’s no secret that the warmer months are well suited to the festivals, camping, and late-night jams beside of campfires and picnic tables that bluegrass fans love so well. Many bluegrass artists slow down

James King, whose knack for choosing well-written songs that work their way into listeners' hearts and minds has helped earn him the title of "Bluegrass Storyteller," has a keen ability to wrap his voice around every ounce of emotion in

Once again, our Special Bluegrass Correspondent is here with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, looking at the Rockahock Bluegrass Festival in Lanexa, VA.  

While the 1927 Bristol Sessions, in which the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and other early country music acts recorded some of their first songs, is well-known as the “Big Bang of Country Music,” it certainly wasn’t the only early country

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, with a look at two - count 'em - two festivals this weekend: one in Palatka, FL and the other in Wincheter, KY.  

Bands often mark milestone anniversaries with new collections of their music – greatest hits albums, or in the case of the Lonesome River Band this past year, fresh recordings of their greatest hits. Nu-Blu, which is celebrating ten years as

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent, back from IBMA, with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, looking at the Outer Banks Bluegrass festival in North Carolina this weekend.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent - and a new assistant SBC - with another bonus edition of the Bluegrass Weather Report for the final day of IBMA in Raleigh. Today's episode covers the banjo flash mob at the statue of