Following on the success of last month's virtual flatpicking competition, two of our nation's premier instructors of traditional music, Steve Kaufman and Marcy Marxer, have launched a full series of online championships, under the rubric of World Virtual Acoustic Contests. These
KDM Records released a new single on Friday by Caleb Daugherty, from his upcoming sophomore bluegrass album, a song called Daylight's Burning. For many bluegrass fans, last year's record, Burnt The Sawmill Down, was their first exposure to this highly talented singer
Fretless banjo master Adam Hurt has released a video this week for one of the tunes on his upcoming album, Back to the Earth. The theme of the album is Adam's celebration of the gourd banjo, played in a clawhammer style,
Around this time three years ago we wrote about a song from an artist new to bluegrass, Mara Levine, and her first single in our world, You Reap What You Sow. The song resonated deeply with our readers, with its
Earlier this week, the home of Harry Grant, promoter of the Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival in Pennsylvania and a very popular figure in bluegrass, was destroyed by fire. Fortunately, Harry was not home when the fire began, and retuned to find
Some good news in the midst of a global pandemic! Bluegrass sweethearts, Allison Hinson, banjoist with The Hinson Girls, and Jacob Greer, guitarist with Sideline, have officially announced their plans to marry. Ally is the third Hinson Girl to marry a
Here's another new single this week from Mountain Home Music, this time for perennial bluegrass headliners, Lonesome River Band. LRB has been touring and recording now for almost 40 years, and despite occasional personnel changes along the way, band leader Sammy
The staff and many volunteers with the International Bluegrass Music Association faced a lot of late nights and strained nerves in September, leading up to their first ever all virtual presentation of their annual World of Bluegrass convention. Not only
Mountain Fever Records has released a new single from Amanda Cook, one that will be included on her next album with the label. Amanda tells us it's one that she started working on more than a decade ago, and just finished
Monday, October 26 was a big day for bluegrass singer and songwriter Gary Brewer. His hometown of Shepherdsville, in the bluegrass state of Kentucky, had proclaimed that date as Gary Brewer Day. A high honor indeed! Gary Brewer Day was declared
