Author: John Lawless

The Dixie Bee-Liners are about to depart for a weekend trip to England, and are asking their fans to consider helping them out with tour expenses. Shows are scheduled on Friday (8/13) at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention Festival in Oxfordshire ,

Anyone want free tickets to see Casey Driessen opening for country/rock sensations the Zac Brown Band? Casey and his power trio are touring this next two weeks with Brown, and is offering two free tickets for each show to folks who

Hot Rize hits the road again this fall for their first US tour in more than 10 years. They have a string of dates scheduled later this year with original members Pete Wernick on banjo, Tim O'Brien on mandolin/fiddle and

Kevin Prater has joined up with The Bluegrass Brothers on banjo. He had worked for some time with James King, playing mandolin and singing tenor, but had gotten his start as a banjo picker. Kevin had been working of late

Entries are coming in for the Barry Bales Have Bass Will Travel video contest we are running on Bluegrass Today in conjunction with the recent release of his AcuTab bass instructional DVD. The contest promises to be a great deal

Rich In Tradition will be in studio with Judith Burnette tomorrow evening on WBRF FM, broadcasting from Galax, VA. Judith tells us that they will be on this Saturday (8/7) during the nine o'clock hour (EDT). "We will be debuting their brand

Bluegrass legend Melvin Goins is hospitalized in Ashland, KY. We have learned that he suffered a heart attack and expects to have a pacemaker installed on Monday. Melvin is currently in King's Daughter's Hospital in Ashland. We will report more on

We have confirmed that the Riggs family has found a buyer for Pinecastle Records, and that the company has been sold. An announcement from the new owners is expected to be made soon. The company closed up shop in February 2010

Certain future supergroup The Boxcars have announced that their self-titled, debut album will be released by Crossroads/Mountain Home Records on October 19, 2010. The band consists of Adam Steffey on mandolin, Ron Stewart on banjo/fiddle, John Bowman on fiddle/banjo, Keith Garrett

We posted a few weeks back about the top-secret Tut Taylor tribute album released July 13 by E1 Music. Entitled Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor, the record features 14 top reso guitarists, each contributing a new version of