Author: John Lawless

It's the third day in our 12 Days of Christmas giveaway with Rhonda Vincent, a promotion that will run up through Christmas Day. Each day one entrant will receive fun prizes from Rhonda, Martha White and Bluegrass Today. On Christmas Day,

Congratulations to our Special Bluegrass Correspondent, John Goad. Yesterday (12/15) he graduated from East Tennessee State University, along with four other students, with a bachelor's degree in Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies. Goad graduated with a dual major, accepting a history

On the second day of Christmas, Ms. Rhonda gave to me...  a lovely chicken stroganoff. Each day between now and Christmas, Rhonda Vincent will share a favorite family recipe, and we will select a winner in our 12 Days Of Christmas

D'Addario has teamed up with The April Verch Band to sponsor a contest that ends today. You can enter online to win an 18'' x 22' silkscreen print (on the left), signed and numbered by the artist, Drew Binkley of Monkey

Ty Piper, founder of Imperial Banjos, passed away on December 5, 2012 at his home in Idaho. He was 64 years old. During the 1970s and early '80s he built banjos from his shop near Oklahoma City. These were true shop-built

Well folks... today's the day! The first winner in the Bluegrass Today 12 Days of Christmas giveaway with Rhonda Vincent has been chosen. Congratulations to Paula Burkhart of Sonoma, CA. In addition to a personal phone call from Rhonda announcing her as today's

John Driskell Hopkins, bass player with the Zac Brown Band, has teamed up with Balsam Range to record an album of his original music, Daylight, which will be independently released on January 22, 2013. The bulk of the music is performed with

It was in September 1996 that the Deering Banjo Company introduced what has become its most popular and iconic model. The Good Times banjo was the brainchild of founder and chief luthier Greg Deering, who was determined to design an

The last time we posted about Marty Raybon's young banjo picker Chris Wade, it was with sad and somewhat depressing news. The 24 year old student in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program had received a diagnosis

California is about as far from New York as you can get in the US, but people there were as struck by the personal tragedies following Tropical Storm Sandy as were the rest of us who escaped unscathed. A group of