Author: John Lawless

This past Sunday's (5/17) edition of The Boston Globe carried a feature by Scott Alarik about the emergence of more and more young folk artists on the scene. The article has a Boston angle, as you might expect, but it does

A new CD has been released from Sound Art Recordings as a tribute to the late Butch Baldassari, who founded the company, and ran it until his death earlier this year. Butch was a true leader in the mandolin world -

I had to rub my eyes after first reading this press release! Steve Martin will be performing with his banjo tonight on the American Idol finale program. He'll be doing one of his songs from The Crow, officially released today (5/20)

We've made mention in the past about the campaign to convince the US Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp honoring the musical contributions of Bill Monroe. According to the USPS guidelines, such stamps can not be issued until ten years

Mike Seeger has been named as the recipient of the 2009 Bess Lomax Hawes Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Seeger has spent most of his life performing and recording traditional American string music, starting with a memorable stint

Sometimes it's rough duty being the Queen of Bluegrass Music. This past weekend at the Central Virginia Family Bluegrass Festival, Rhonda Vincent was viciously attacked on stage by an unidentified member of the class Insecta in the phylum Anthropda. She got

The Infamous Stringdusters will make a stop this Tuesday (5/19) at the studios of WAMU's Bluegrass Country in Washington, DC. The guys will be playing some live music and chatting with Bluegrass Country's Production Director Jen Hitt starting at 12:30 p.m.

Adam Steffey is surely one of the most recorded mandolinists in bluegrass this past 15 years or so. He has spent time with two powerfully influential acts - Alison Krauss & Union Station and Mountain Heart - where he has been

Alison Brown is among several banjoists whose playing has been described as "out of this world" - but she may be among the very few who can prove it. When space shuttle Atlantis took off last week to perform delicate repairs

Pete Wernick will be working next week on a live recording with Long Road Home, a bluegrass band based in Boulder, CO. They will be tracking May 25-27 at the Etown Hall in downtown Boulder, with admission proceeds going towards