To celebrate their founding in 1975, Deering Banjos has created a highly ornate, 50th Anniversary Limited Edition model banjo. It's a strikingly beautiful instrument, made of high-grade curly maple with a bound ebony fingerboard and delicate, intricate fretboard inlays. Of course
From southwest England comes Rocking Horse Money, an interesting acoustic trio consisting of two well-known English grassers, Laura Carrivick on fiddle and reso-guitar and John Breese on bass, and an early rock 'n' roll enthusiast, Oliver Seymour. Laura tells us that
Across The Track, an active bluegrass band in the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware region this past two decades, has announced that they are dissolving the group after a final performance on November 16. Band leaders James Langer (mandolin) and Darin Wassum
Mountain Fever Records has released a new single from Amanda Cook, whose seven-record deal with previous label head Mark Hodges has evolved into her buying the business and becoming its new owner. The song is Out of My Bones, written by
Iowa grasser Lori King has released a music video for her current single, Wherever You Are, a gospel song memorably recorded previously by The Collingsworth Family and The Martins. King pulled in Rhonda Vincent for the video, reprising her role singing
Fresh off the release of their new album, Safe Sensible and Sane, Steve Martin and Alison Brown took their twin banjo sound to the stage of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night. They performed the instrumental, Let's Get Out
For her birthday this month, perennial bluegrass hitmaker Irene Kelley thought that a bike ride through Cade's Cove in east Tennessee sounded like a perfect day out. Lovely fall scenery, and a near certainty of encountering deer in quantity, was
Every so often a young artist comes to our attention that seems destined for something big. It may be a voice that seems wise beyond its years, or a stage presence that immediately silences a rowdy audience. We saw this
Todd Taylor, the South Carolina banjo man in black, is back with a new video, this time covering a Flatt & Scruggs classic, Foggy Mountain Rock. This is one that was written by Josh Graves, the pioneering reso-guitar player with The
Junior Sisk, one of bluegrass music's most beloved singers, bandleaders, and personalities over the past several decades, has announced a retirement date. But not to worry; he'll be on the road performing all of next year, and most of the
