Author: John Lawless

For the past 10 years, Felts Park in Galax, VA has been alive with bluegrass music on the second weekend in June for HoustonFest. The festival brought in top bluegrass entertainers to benefit the Galax Volunteer Fire Department, and honor

It's hard to believe that Sam Bush is now among the venerable oldsters of contemporary bluegrass music, at least for those of us who remember him as a brash young rebel with Bluegrass Alliance or New Grass Revival in the

Charlie Treat - photo by Taylor Ann Bogner East Nashville singer/songwriter and eccentric Charlie Treat has completed a bluegrass album, Into The Wild Mystic Mountain, set for release next month. Bluegrass may not be his natural milieu, growing up in New

Daywind Music Group, the parent company of Billy Blue Records and several mainstream gospel labels, has announced the relaunch of Thoroughbred Records to serve the bluegrass gospel market. Originally started in 1995, Thoroughbred was once the home of such legends

Morgan Brake at the 2022 World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, NC Teen Florida bluegrass singer and songwriter Morgan Brake has a powerful new single and video for her song, Devil's Land to offer. The song is included on her recently

Larry Stephenson has released a new single with his band, That'll Get Me Through Missouri, on his own Whysper Dream Music label. Written by Larry and Donna Ulisse, it's the first track to hit from the band's upcoming album, Cast A Lonesome Shadow,

Since 2007 the town of Westport, located in County Mayo along the northwestern coast of the Republic of Ireland, has had its own bluegrass festival, called appropriately enough, the Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival. It's not a large town, already

North Carolina banjo picker Andy Lowe, the newest Mountain Fever Records signee, has his first single released today, a muscular recut of a Del Mccoury number called On The Lonesome Wind. Lowe, known as Al to his friends, has been a

You know that bluegrass sensation Billy Strings has certainly gone mainstream when he attracts the attention of network news. And that is just what happened this weekend when the popular news magazine program, CBS Sunday Morning, did a five minute

For the past decade or so, the bluegrass, gospel, and traditional country world has been enamored of The Church Sisters, fraternal twins Savannah and Sarah Church from southwestern Virginia, whose duet singing turned heads wherever they performed. Carl Jackson was