A good many readers enjoyed the video produced last summer by the San Francisco Opera which featured banjoist supreme Béla Fleck and operatic mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. It was one of several collaboration projects commissioned by SFO for a series they
Mountain Home Music has a new single this week from Benson, the husband-and-wife duo of Wayne and Kristin Scott Benson. She is the five-time IBMA Banjo Player of the Year who picks with The Grascals, and he is the award-winning
Reso guitar master Rob Ickes has announced a second video course where he teaches classic Josh Graves solos from the days of Flatt & Scruggs at the Big Music Tent site. Unlike sites where you pay subscriptions to obtain their instructional
Kitchen Dwellers, the popular jamgrass outfit from Bozeman, MT has a new single today taken from their upcoming Wise River project, which hits on April 29. This young band of neo-grassers tick most of the boxes that matter most for the urban-oriented fans
Plum River Records has a new single for Jacob Underwood from his upcoming all Gospel project, My Hope is in the Lord. It's a timeless hymn, Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, dating back to 1882. Multi-instrumentalist Underwood plays as a
Compass Records has a new single this week for Mr. Sun, featuring award-winning fiddler Darol Anger, his first recording since being awarded an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2020. Darol has been familiar to bluegrass audiences since he emerged on the scene
Pinecastle Records has released a second single for their upcoming solo project for Jim Hurst, From The Ground Up. With Jim's well deserved reputation as a skilled guitar man, it is easy to forget what a profoundly talented vocalist he is
The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame has announced that legendary banjo player and singer Charlie Poole will be inducted as a member in the 2022 class. Poole led a short and highly volatile life, but was quite popular along with
Who'd a' thunk it?! Rob McCoury takes an unaccustomed driver's seat profile on this latest single from The Travelin' McCourys. Normally Rob stays pretty quiet on stage, letting his banjo do the talking, but for their remake of Tom T Hall's
The organizers of the annual Wayne Henderson Festival, held in Grayson Highlands State Park in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, are delighted to announce that not only will the festival return in 2022 after two COVID cancellations, but that the very popular
