Author: John Lawless

Mike Seeger is scheduled to receive the 2009 Bess Lomax Hawes Award from the National Endowment for the Arts on September 22. The presentation will take place in the US Capitol, Senate Caucus Building. Mike passed away on August 7 of

We've posted a number of times recently about the special Nashville Symphony concert this weekend, billed as Classical Americana. It will feature a number of prominent bluegrass and Americana artists performing with the Symphony, including Sam Bush, Alison Brown, Byron

Bluegrass fans worldwide recall today's date (September 9) as the anniversary of Bill Monroe's passing in 1996. Just four days hence, we celebrate his birthdate in 1911. WAMU's Bluegrass Country has a week full of special programming to remember the Father

How about this for a bluegrass fan? Any band would surely be honored to be memorialized in a fan's license plate, as were The Gibson Brothers by a big fan. Too bad the state of Virginia doesn't offer a banjo plate. If

Tina Adair made quite a name for herself in bluegrass before many performers her age had played their first show. Her family band, The Adairs, won the 1996 Pizza Hut Bluegrass Showdown when Tina was 17 years old, and within

Scott Anderson's name has been a familiar one to bluegrass fans in Florida for the past 20 years. He performed and recorded on banjo with Endless Highway, Gentle River and The Bluegrass Parlor Band, and toured as a member of

Fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor has been showing up everywhere of late. He is on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Strings Magazine, and received a profile in the September 7 edition of The New Yorker's Talk Of The Town

Niall Toner has sent along a copy of his latest CD with his band, NTB3, their 3rd CD of Toner's original music. Whereas prior releases have featured the Irish singer/songwriter in a bluegrass band setting, this new project is closer to

Have you voted yet in the 2009 Bluegrass Blog Awards Poll? Our annual poll mirrors the official IBMA Awards ballot which is used by the voting membership to choose the recipients of the International Bluegrass Music Awards. Of course, our poll

We posted in August about The Nashville Symphony's Classical Americana concert, scheduled for this Saturday (9/12). The show will feature noted bluegrass and folk performers with the symphony, and was programmed as a tribute to the Americana Music Association's convention next