Author: John Lawless

A  umber of the bands who had been invited to showcase in the 2020 Bluegrass Ramble at World of Bluegrass, have begun to release clips from the video presentations they submitted to IBMA for their virtual convention. Even though they

Jim McCown, noted bluegrass banjo player, audio engineer, and old time fiddler, passed away suddenly on October 7 in Hardy, KY. He was 80 years of age. Bluegrass audiences first came to know Jim in the early 1970s through the band

The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced today the details for their 2020 Hall of Fame inductions, to be held online next week owing to COVID-19 restrictions. A bumper crop of banjo heavyweights in on tap to enter the

Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra has another single today from their upcoming album, Migrants, a new song written by vocalist Rebekka Nilsson and mandolinist Joakim Borgen. If you were watching the Bluegrass Ramble concerts during the virtual World of Bluegrass last month,

Engelhardt Music Group has released a new music video for their current single by Eddie Sanders, Till The River Starts To Rise. The track is one Sanders wrote with Adam Engelhardt, inspired by steering his vehicle into a deluge while on

Aficionados of old time banjo music have long regarded Adam Hurt as one of its finest contemporary practitioners. The native of St Paul, MN now living near Danville, VA, seems to please every sort of old time enthusiast through his

And now for something completely different... a premiere of the new music video from The Golden Age, My Drunk Uncle. With The Golden Age, we see the reunion of two bluegrass innovators, Bryan Simpson and Matt Menefee, formerly bandmates in Cadillac Sky

The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has issued a reminder that applications for their 2021 Project Grants are due by December 1, 2020. Each year, the Foundation awards roughly $14,000 in grants to

Reso-guitar maestro Jerry Douglas has announced his association with Modern Music Masters to offer online lessons for students of the instrument. Jerry has been heralded as a slide hero since he first arrived on the scene as a young man playing with

Since 1976, bluegrass lovers in San Diego, CA have enjoyed a weekly dose of new and vintage grass on The Bluegrass Special, hosted by Wayne Rice on KSON. The show survived numerous ownership and format changes over these 44 years,