Author: John Lawless

The Walnut Valley Festival, typically held each year in Winfield, KS, has announced a weekend of online workshops in March. Festival coordinators believe that they will be able to host a live, in-person event in September 2021, but based on the

Online Christmas bluegrass shows are busting out all over! Tonight and tomorrow nights (December 10-11), Rhonda Vincent is bringing her star-studded Christmas in Branson show to Facebook Live. The same special holiday program that has been running nightly at the Andy

The Infamous Stringdusters have augmented their 2020 holiday music collection today with two new singles celebrating the Festival of Hanukkah, which begins today and runs through December 18. An album of Christmas songs, Dust The Halls, was released earlier this

Last month, when Pinecastle Records released their latest single for Daryl Mosley, we told you about his request for fans to send in photos of the little towns where they live for a music video of the song, In A

Dailey & Vincent have announced the schedule for their annual Christmas shows, with four new episodes to be aired this month on the Circle network and RFD-TV. The first episode of the 2020 edition of A Springer Mountain Farms Christmas, featuring Dailey

This Sunday evening (December 13), two of the most celebrated guitarists in the recent history of acoustic music will perform a live Christmas show from Nashville, TN. Tommy Emmanuel on the steel string guitar will pair up with Jerry Douglas

Here's an entertaining tale for anyone who likes bluegrass, opera, world travel, or just a great love story. It's all about a girl growing up in North Carolina, who ended up working in Germany after college, but met her true

Also jumping into the bluegrass song sweepstakes this year is West Virginia's Circa Blue. Their entry is Old Toy Trains, a remake of Roger Miller's single from 1967 which he had written for his son. It takes the form of a

Paul Schiminger, Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced his intention to retire from his position at the end of May 2021. Schiminger has served as Executive Director since 2015, when he was chosen to lead the organization

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum and Jagoe Homes, both in Owensboro, KY, are hosting a Virtual Band Contest running from now through March of next year, in collaboration with the annual ROMP festival. The winner will get to