Author: John Lawless

Colorado's Bowregard, still on a high from winning the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition in June, has released a music video today for their song, The Henrys.  Banjo picker James Armington tells us that it came from inside the band,

Delebration, an all-star jam with Del McCoury, ands the 2019 Wide Open Bluegrass - photo by Frank Baker The IBMA closed out their big annual festival, Wide Open Bluegrass, with an all-star jam based around our patriarch, Del McCoury, and his

As a niche music form, bluegrass music is always looking for the next big crossover act, a band or singer who can crack into the pop mainstream, and bring greater attention to the genre from which they burst into the

World of Bluegrass week, and the Wide Open Bluegrass festival that follows, is always the high point of the year for bluegrass lovers, especially those of us who work in the industry. It's the only time when dang near everyone

All sorts of things can happen during World of Bluegrass week. With nearly the entire bluegrass industry in one place, meetings and communications that might have taken weeks with everyone back in their offices, can happen in just a few

South Carolina's Backline has announced Clint White as the newest member of the band, coming in on fiddle. A Toledo, Ohio native, Clint started on the fiddle in 2006, dawn to the sound of the instrument in country and bluegrass music.

This afternoon, during the Wide Open Bluegrass Festival in Raleigh, NC, details were announced for the inaugural Earl Scruggs Music Festival, to be held in Mill Spring, NC on September 4-5, 2020. The festival is jointly sponsored by The Earl Scruggs

The newest single from Audie Blaylock & Redline, the second from their current project, Originalist, offers an interesting take on Acts, chapter 3. This is the familiar story of St. Peter curing the lame man at the Temple in Jerusalem following

During today's IBMA Industry Awards presentation at the Raleigh Convention Center, the IBMA Foundation announced a new, one time scholarship funded by Murphy Henry. It will be granted to four young women who are bluegrass musicians entering college in 2020,

Tonight at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, the 30th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards were hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Recipients were announced in 17 categories, honoring the top pickers and singers in the bluegrass