Kody Norris has announced a new member of his touring traditional bluegrass show. Charlie Lowman, dubbed "Cousin Charlie," has joined the band playing upright bass. Living now in Mountain City, TN, Lowman had been playing with his own Charlie Lowman and
Josh Swift, reso-guitarist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver this past 12 years, has announced his departure from the band. There he has served as more than just a band member, handling a great many logistical details for Doyle on the road,
The first bluegrass baby of 2020! Kyle Clerkin, banjo player with The Caleb Daugherty Band, and his wife Katie, are celebrating the arrival of their second child. Ian William Clerkin was born at King’s Daughters’ Hospital in Madison, Indiana at 6:43
South Carolina's Backline has announced a change in personnel going in to 2020. Bassist and founding member Jason Belue is leaving the band to attend the CRAS Recording institute in Tempe, AZ. The band has brought in Chris Williamson, formerly of Volume
The Monroe Mandolin Camp, a multi-discipline bluegrass instructional camp dedicated to the music left to us by Bill Monroe, has announced an in-house mentorship program for new students during their 7th annual weekend of workshops in 2020. New attendees will each
Closing out our years-end charts for 2019, here are the Top 30 Gospel songs as played on bluegrass radio last year. The chart is generated by combing all the results from our Bluegrass Today Weekly Gospel Airplay chart. ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Alan Bibey &
Since relocating to east Tennessee, bluegrass singer and band leader Corey Zink has had to restructure his touring group a bit. Understandably, not everyone in Zink and Company was on board for the move from Massachusetts, and Corey has a
Cory Piatt, mandolinist with Mountain Faith and Kenny & Amanda Smith, and his wife, Jett, welcomed their first-born child just before Christmas. Alice Mariah Piatt was born in Nashville on December 23, weighing in at 7 lbs, 13 oz. In addition to
When I first met The Wildmans, they were pre-teen pickers circulating in the arts-rich mountain community of Floyd, VA. Even then, with their mom ferrying them to rehearsals and shows, it was clear that these two young musicians, Aila and
As promised, here are the year-end results of our weekly grassicana radio playlist chart, displayed as a 2019 Top 30. It was compiled by combining results from our 52 Bluegrass Today Grassicana Weekly Airplay chart reports over the year. ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Infamous Stringdusters Rise Sun Tape Time
