Huckleberry Records offers a new single from bluegrass vocalist Teddy Barneycastle, a song that mirrors his own heartbreak, faith, patience, and restoration, though it wasn't one he wrote. Lonesome Side of Town was written by Pat Flynn, of New Grass Revival
The Winter Wondergrass festival in Steamboat Springs, CO has teamed up with Volume.com to offer live streams of the stage shows at no charge. Now that is a deal! This long-running event is part progressive bluegrass festival, part beer-fest, and part
The Infamous Stringdusters have shared a final single before the February 13 release of their next album, 20/20, on the Americana Vibes label. It's a song written by banjo man Chris Pandolfi called Up From The Bottom, which he says is
Reporting from the 2026 SPBGMA National Convention in Nashville this weekend has been tricky. We understand that this morning, all the hotels in that part of town, including the host site, the Sheraton Music City Airport location, is without power.
West Virginia bluegrass fiddler Crystal Shipley BIttinger was the victim of a pedestrian-vehicle collision in Charles Town, WV on January 21 at roughly 3:30 in the afternoon. She had exited her car and was crossing the street to a coffee
Spinsters, a new independent feature film in post-production with a screenplay by Sasha Carrera, was shot entirely in Frederick, MD, and uses a number of well-known bluegrass players on screen. It's a story about two middle-aged women, best friends but now
Regular readers, or fans of the From The Top program that highlights teen musicians of note, will recall our coverage in 2024 of young banjo player Bayla Davis, and her inclusion on the show that year. At the time, she
Bluegrass festivals, the life blood of the bluegrass industry, are thriving all over the world thanks to the tremendous growth in the popularity of the music outside of the US. Various forms of online communication are surely at the root
Wisconsin recording artist Nick Dumas has a new single today with Skyline Records, one he wrote with Zach Top while the two were playing bluegrass together some time ago. Now a rising country star, Top and Dumas grew up together in
Popular Ohio banjo player and multi-instrumentalist Stacy Wilcox died on January 19 following multiple heart attacks suffered nine days earlier. He was 55 years of age. A native of Benton, TN, Stacy had lived in Ohio for 22 years, but never
