This weekend, on October 19, Johnson City, TN will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Johnson City Sessions, among the first commercial recordings of traditional mountain music ever made, captured by the Columbia Records company in October of 1928.
Raymond Fairchild, noted banjo player, entertainer, and western North Carolina icon, died yesterday following a heart attack. He was 80 years of age. Fairchild was born and lived most of his life in and around Cherokee, NC, and is himself half-Cherokee
Bourgeois Guitars and Eastman Music have announced a new partnership that offers advantages to both companies, while allowing Dana Bourgeois to continue making guitars as he has been in his Maine facility. The structure of their arrangement is an interesting one,
FreshGrass, the festival and organization based in Massachusetts, has announced a second event under their banner to be held in Bentonville, AR. And like the original in North Adams, MA, which is held on the campus of the Massachusetts Museum
Here's another music video from the debut album by Appalachian Road Show, released by Billy Blue Records. It's for the final track on their self-titled project, a Gospel classic from the pen of Alfred Brumley, who contributed hundreds of songs
It was a true bluegrass wedding last Saturday at Hoovanna Farm in Kingsport, TN when Ashley Davis and Murphy White were married. Both work in the bluegrass industry. Ashley plays fiddle and sings with both Appalachian Trail and Kristi Stanley &
Tim Shelton first came to prominence in bluegrass when NewFound Road hit the scene back in 2001. With Tim out front as lead singer, the band recorded three albums for Mountain Home Music, and three more for Rounder before largely
This past weekend the Steep Canyon Rangers packed up a dozen members of the Asheville Symphony and headed to Nashville to meet up with Philadelphia soul legends, Boyz II Men, for the live debut of their new joint single, Be
The Department of Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University has announced the addition of two new faculty members familiar to the bluegrass and old time community. Jon Weisberger will come on board as an adjunct, serving
Morning Glory Music, the Gospel imprint of the Mountain Fever Music Group, has released a new single today from The Gospel Plowboys. This popular sextet from North Carolina are easily recognizable by their distinctive stage attire - denim bibs, white
