Author: John Lawless

Instrumentalists and bands are invited to submit to compete for the 2022 FreshGrass Awards with its $12,500 in cash prizes. Awards are offered for banjo, fiddle, guitar, and full band, with the band winner also receiving a day of recording

Turnberry Records has a debut single for Darren Beachley, the initial offering from an upcoming project that will mark his first solo effort in more than a decade. Beachley has enjoyed a stellar career in bluegrass, from his time playing reso-guitar

The recipients of the 2021 Steve Mandell Memorial Music Scholarship Fund grants have been announced. These awards are offered annually to assist those seeking to learn, develop, and enhance their music education in folk, bluegrass, old-timey, or other acoustic Americana

Broken Compass Bluegrass - photo by Snap Jackson If you live in northern California, or frequent the bluegrass scene there, you may not need an introduction to the three talented teens who make up Broken Compass Bluegrass. But wherever you hang

Dark Shadow Recording has produced a music video for They Sawed Up A Storm, one of the tracks on their recently released songwriter project for Rick Lang, A Tale To Tell. Like his previous recordings, Lang writes, or co-writes, the songs,

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced that tickets will go on sale early next month for their annual Bluegrass Live! festival, held each year following the World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, NC.  This is the major presentation each year

Special Consensus is back with their first new music in two years, and a fresh band sound courtesy of two new regular members. The band is headed by banjo picker Greg Cahill, as Special C has been for its entire 47

Lori King & Junction 63, a popular touring bluegrass group in the Midwest, has announced that Alex Riffle of Poplar Bluff, MO will be playing with the band on selected dates this season. Alex is a highly decorated player at only

With the return this year of the Bloomin' BBQ Music & Food Festival in east Tennessee after two years of cancellations, we also find a call for entries for the Mountain Soul Vocal Competition which honors the songwriting of local

What's That You're Doin'? is the latest single from Infamous Stringdusters fiddler Jeremy Garrett, taken from his upcoming solo project, River Wild, on Mountain Home Music. The whole album is envisioned as Garrett's return to a grassier sound, after a number