Author: John Lawless

The Kody Norris Show exhibit at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum - photo by Adam Paris Here's another reason to make a trip out to Owensboro in western Kentucky and the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum,

Mandolinst Mark Stoffel, longtime member of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, has a new single with Mountain Home Music Company. It's a lovely, understated, instrumental take on the Reno & Smiley classic, I'm Using My Bible For A Road

High Fidelity at the 2024 Salmon Lake Park Gospel Bluegrass Festival - photo courtesy of Salmon Lake The 27th annual Salmon Lake Park Gospel Bluegrass Festival ran last month in Grapeland, TX, one of two yearly festivals at the park. Promoter Julie

The Epiphone instrument company, once a chief rival to Gibson guitars, mandolin, and guitars in the early part of the 20th century, became more-or-less an authorized Gibson copy builder after Gibson bought the company in 1957. Not immediately, as Epiphone

For quite some time, Barcelona banjo player Lluis Gomez has been recognized as the most visible and recognized practitioner of his instrument in Spain. Picking up the five string in adulthood, following many years of musical training in classical guitar

The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame has included legendary bluegrass fiddler Bobby Hicks as one of their six inductees for 2024. Bobby has already received this honor from the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2017, but he will surely

Young Nashville-based singer and songwriter Addie Levy has dropped a new single, one she wrote called Avalanche. At the same time as the single, Addie has introduced her touring band, also called Avalanche. Members include Ethan Ratliff on guitar, Jared Houseman

Sometimes a bluegrass song can grab you from the title alone. When you hear the name, you feel as though you like it already. In that vein, South Carolina bluegrass singer, songwriter, and guitarist Andrew Crawford has a new single with

The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic and educational side of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced a new scholarship for college students, named in honor of one of the first female artists to work as a sideman in bluegrass music

Milkpan from Kobe University at KazCamp 2024 - photo courtesy of Kaz Inaba Kazuhiro Inaba, one of Japan's premier bluegrass entertainers, has shared a report from his 2024 Bluegrass Camp, held each year in Osaka. He calls it a camp, but