Author: John Lawless

The Del McCoury Band at DelFest '24 - photo courtesy of DelFest © Liz Pappas Thanks to the folks at DelFest who shared these photos from the opening day of the 2024 festival, and the DelFest Academy, the instructional camp leading

From Missouri comes Route 3, and a debut single from their upcoming Pinecastle Records album, Just Believe. It's one written by guitarist Jason Jordan called Don't Know What I'll Do, a traditional bluegrass number with some serious groove. Jason also sings

For her next single with Billy Blue Records, award-winning singer and songwriter Donna Ulisse has picked one she wrote from her current album, Mountain Lily. It's a song that celebrates the boundless optimism of youth, and the liberty of the

Lorraine Jordan shared some photos of the trip she took with her band, Carolina Road, out west to Wyoming recently. The proximate reason for the visit was to play at friend and songwriter David Stewart's Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, WY. But

Billy Thibodeau, mandolinist with Rock Hearts, has been inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame. He officially joined the HOF on May 19, and now shares this distinction with his father, Sam Tidwell, who is in the Rhode

It's been a while since we've heard new music from Gina Furtado, but Mountain Home Music has remedied that with a new single with the one word title, Submarine. Recorded with her eponymous Gina Furtado Project, the song shares a whimsical

Pinecastle Records has announced the signing of singer, songwriter, and mandolinist Ashleigh Graham to the label. Concurrent with the announcement, they have released a first single with Ashleigh, a cute and clever song she wrote about one of southerners' favorite

The Po' Ramblin' Boys - photo © Michael Weintrob Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has released a new single for The Po' Ramblin' Boys, a song written by guitarist Josh Rinkel called Lonely Pine. Readers who attended the 2023 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards show,

A new band has hit the scene this year that is reviving the tradition of black string bands. They go by the name New Dangerfield, in honor of Dangerfield Newby, a free black abolitionist who took part in John Brown's historic

Great news for bluegrass lovers in western Connecticut! The Morris Bluegrass Festival, on hiatus this past three decades, is being brought back for 2024. It will be held on July 4 from 12:00-7:00 p.m. at South Farms, a working cattle farm