Author: John Lawless

Mountain Home Music has a new single for Unspoken Tradition coming out tomorrow, and has offered our readers a premiere this morning. It's a story born of the flooding disaster experienced where they live in western North Carolina, and repeated

Earlier this month, Carolina Detour was chosen as the winner of the Rising Stars Challenge at Blue Highway Fest 2025. This band of young grassers from central and western North Carolina had been runners up in the competition last year,

Sad news for live bluegrass lovers in central New York. The Brantling Bluegrass Festival, operated this past 16 years at the Brantling Ski Slopes in Sodus, NY, has been closed down by its promoters. Beginning in 2009, they have sought to

Asheville, NC's Songs From The Road Band is sharing a new single this month, another track from their upcoming full-length release. A songwriters' effort from their inception, this latest, Halfway Home, comes from two founding members of the group. All five

The latest single from The Steve Bruce Band, family and friends of the banjo pickin' pastor from LaFollette, TN, is a gospel number that was popularized by Alison Krauss & Union Station. Heaven's Bright Shore was recorded by Krauss on her

From Birmingham, AL comes Mountain Grass Unit, a fresh and highly-talented young bluegrass/jamgrass quartet. They have earned a fine reputation and a legion of new fans through extensive touring this year, though the four have been friends for years. Drury Anderson

John Meyer, one half of the bluegrass act Pitney Meyer, and his wife Kourtney, are celebrating the birth of their third child. Aidan John Meyer made his arrival on October 9, joining older siblings Zane and Lilly in the Meyer household. John

A raft of bluegrass artists, including Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Russell Moore, and several others, have autographed a pair of bluegrass instruments for a special auction to benefit musical artists and music

Olivia Jo, rising young bluegrass singer and songwriter from southwestern Virginia, has a new single to share, Down Life's Road. It's one she wrote with Jon Weisberger about finding her own way in the world. As a teen, Olivia Jo traveled

Rhonda Vincent rings the NYSE closing bell, January 26, 2018 Rhonda Vincent has been invited to ring the opening bell tomorrow, October 21, at the New York Stock Exchange. For more than 120 years, the ringing of this bell has signaled