Author: John Lawless

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has put together a series of multimedia portraits of acts performing on the 2008 Rochester Jazz Festival. The act chosen as the highlight from Sunday's (6/15) performance was the Alison Brown Quartet. As many of our

Dan Tyminski will celebrate today's (6/17) release of Wheels, his new Rounder CD, with an appearance on the Tuesday Opry in Nashville. Their set will be during the show's first segment, between 8:00-8:30 p.m. (EDT). The Tuesday Opry broadcast is

We just received a copy of the new CD from Steve Smith and Hard Road, Only So Fast. I've known Steve since we were both young students of bluegrass music in eastern Virginia back in the late 1970s, and have followed

We are delighted to announce the winners in our recent promotional contest, run in cooperation with The Infamous Stringdusters, Sugar Hill Records and Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. The first three winners will receive an autographed copy of the band's latest CD

The Associated Press is reporting that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has announced that he will recommend FCC approval of the proposed merger between the Sirius and XM satellite radio broadcasting companies. From the piece by the AP's John Dunbar: Martin made his

Once again, The Grand Ole Opry has some bluegrass to offer in this weekend's broadcasts. Friday night's Opry (6/13) will feature performances from Mountain Heart, The Whites and Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press while Saturday (6/14) night has 3 Fox

OK... now we know why The Grascals spent so much time at the CMA Music Festival last week. While they were doing interviews at the Music Row Live! radio remotes event, they met up with pop, TV and soon-to-be country star

Speaking of Claire Lynch... She will be joining Carol Beaugard on Lonesome Pine RFD this morning (6/13) at 11:00 a.m. to talk about all things Claire. The show airs on WFDU-FM 89.1 FM in the New York city metropolitan area, and over

We posted back in April about Claire Lynch's fan contest to win an iPod Shuffle pre-loaded with Claire's six Rounder releases. The premise of the contest was simple, but far from easy - tell your life story in only six words. A

Video of a recent performance by Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet on the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour can now be viewed online. The group is composed of Abby on clawhammer banjo and vocals, Bela Fleck on 3 finger banjo,