• Drone footage of Sideline at SamJam 2021

    To close out a week full of festival coverage, here is video shot by a drone hovering over the 2021 SamJam Bluegrass Festival in Piketon, OH. It captures a power beginning to Sideline's closing set on September 4, which began with

  • DelFest postponed again to 2022

    Rob and Ronnie McCoury have just announced that DelFest 2021, typically held over Memorial Day each year in Cumberland, MD, has decided to postpone the festival yet again, and plans to hold it in May of 2022. It appears from their

  • Mark Varner passes

    Mark Varner - photo by Snap Jackson/Mark with his son, Marty Mark Varner, prominent California bluegrass musician and active volunteer with state bluegrass associations, died unexpectedly in his sleep on September 4. He was at his long-awaited retirement home in Dangriga,

  • Track Premiere: Only Blue from Swamptooth

    Swamptooth is a new contemporary bluegrass group from Savannah, GA whose debut album, B-Flat Earth, is set to release later this month. The band formed last year in an attempt to stay fresh on their instruments while live performances were proscribed,

  • Red Toad Road video by Carolyn Eyerly

    Northern Virginia bluegrass singer and songwriter, Carolyn Eyerly, has released a music video for another of the songs on her current Patuxent Music album, The Sunny Side of Life. This one is called Red Toad Road, which Carolyn says was inspired