Author: John Lawless

The historic Belcourt Theater in Nashville will be the site for a CD release/tribute concert for Bobby Osborne's Try A Little Kindness project on Thursday, March 23. The show will feature Bobby Osborne and The Rocky Top X-Press, plus special

The popular and acclaimed NashCamp has announced their Music Camps for 2006, with three, week-long events during the summer, and a weekend banjo retreat in the fall. First up is two weeks of bluegrass instruction, aptly named Bluegrass Weeks. Each of

We had posted last year about an edition of CMT's Total Access program which ran in December. It featured an up-close, off-stage encounter with Alison Krauss & Union Station during their 2005 visit to the UK. The show has been

Stephanie Ledgin has worked for many years as a photographer, journalist, radio announcer, editor and event producer in the world of bluegrass, old time and folk music. Her 2004 book, Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass has been heralded as a

The April issue of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine is in the mail and on its way to subscribers. This month, BU has an obituary memorial by Eddie Stubbs marking the recent passing of Louise Scruggs, plus features on Tim White and

We mentioned last month that The Gibson Brothers had shot their very first music video. The song chosen is I Got A Woman, from their latest CD, Red Letter Day. Eric Gibson has just now passed along that the video is

Pepsi is entering its fourth year of sponsorship of FiddleFest, a not-for-profit bluegrass music festival held annually on the campus of Hollins University, just north of Roanoke, VA. What makes the sponsorship unique is that, in addition to cash

We posted last month about what is sure to be an exciting new instrumental outfit, composed of dobro wizard Rob Ickes, mandolin/fiddle prodigy Andy Leftwich, and Nashville session bass stalwart Dave Pomeroy. The band, who describe themselves as a "jamgrass

Banjo player Bill Evans has worn a lot of hats over the years - as a teacher, writer, ethnomusicologist, IBMA board member, IBMM associate director, workshop leader and as a banjo player with Dry Branch Fire Squad. Next week, Bill

We posted last fall about the efforts of the International Bluegrass Music Museum to record first person chronicles of the early generation of bluegrass artists and songwriters for the benefit of future generations. This time critical endeavor, The Video Oral