Author: John Lawless

Rhonda Vincent has an early Christmas present for us all, a hilarious video version of I Ain't Been Nowhere from her current Music Is What I See album. It features Rhonda, the members of her touring band, The Rage, her husband,

Dom Flemons teaches a recent banjo class hosted by the Black Banjo Reclamation Project at the Old Time School of Folk Music in Chicago Following several generations of African Americans running away from old time music and the banjo in particular, the

Yonder Mountain String Band really throws down the grass on their latest single, the first from the band's upcoming Get Yourself Outside album. Into The Fire features the newest member of the band, mandolinist Nick Piccininni, who is quite prominent on this

Mountain Home Music has released another single from their upcoming Bluegrass At The Crossroads album, a sort of band scramble project that groups artists from a variety of different outfits, brought together to record a mix of new material and

Cody Farrar, guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter with Breaking Grass, and his wife, Amanda, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Denver Rose Farrar was born in Tupelo, MS on November 24 at 9:21. p.m. She arrived almost four

Bell Buckle Records has a new single for Pennsylvania sibling sextet, Echo Valley, a Gospel number titled My Prayer. The group consists of five Anderson sisters along with their younger brother. Emily plays fiddle, Isabelle mandolin, Lizzy plays guitar, Olivia and

Irish bluegrass/Celtic hybrid group We Banjo 3 has an ambitious December planned. Their first Christmas album, A Winter Wonderful, releases on Friday, and they begin a 10-day US Christmas tour tonight in Denver. The month culminates with the lads performing

KDM Records has released a seasonal single for Caleb Daugherty, his take on country singer Skip Ewing's lovely ballad, Christmas Carol. The song, written by Ewing and a committee consisting of Bruce Burch, Donald Burch, Johnny MacRae, Mickey Clark, and Steve Clark,

Tray Wellington, innovative young North Carolina banjoist and band leader, has accepted a position as Communications Manager with Pinecone in Raleigh, NC. Pinecone, which is also known as the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, is a non-profit agency dedicated to preserving,

The ill-fated debut of the Earl Scruggs Music Festival is now set for September 2022. This large scale event, designed to bring together fans of bluegrass, old time, Americana, and Piedmont blues music, was announced to great fanfare in 2019,