The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced today the list of writers and songs that will be featured at their Songwriters Showcase during World Of Bluegrass 2019. Each year dozens of songwriters vie to have their new material performed at the
Nefesh Mountain has released a new music video today, a live performance of the opening track off their current album, Beneath The Open Sky. The video catches the band on stage at Space in Chicago doing Bound For The Promised Land,
Dark Shadow Recording has released a second single today from their upcoming project with Rick Faris, Breaking In Lonesome. Rick is the guitarist with Special Consensus, the band he has toured with this past decade. He started on mandolin with Special
Libby Lindblom is the 19 year old guitarist with her family's bluegrass band, Lindblom Family Music, in the Savannah, GA area. A recent high school graduate, Libby had been looking for a new project to earn some extra income in
Amanda Fields is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter in Nashville, making a name for herself in the city's vibrant community of young bluegrass artists. Though she is living now in Music City, we claim her back in the Blue Ridge region of
Finn Grindstaff with his new baby brother, Owen Daniel Grindstaff, banjo player with Merle Monroe, and his wife Kristen, are celebrating the birth of their second child last month. Owen John Grindstaff was born on May 24 at 12:40 a.m. He came
Nashville-based guitarist and singer/songwriter Rebecca Frazier has released another of her clever music videos, again for one of her original instrumentals. The tune is called Clifftop, named for the popular Appalachian String Band Music Festival in West Virginia held near the
Ray Deaton, the original and long time bassist and bass singer with IIIrd Tyme Out, died earlier today. He was 66 years of age. Prior to helping create IIIrd Tyme Out, Ray had been a member of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver,
The folks at Nashville Acoustic Camps, who already host ten bluegrass and old time music instructional camps throughout the year, have added a new one for for this fall. The brainchild of noted instructors Megan Lynch and Adam Chowning, a husband-and-wife
Nothing highlights the explosive growth of bluegrass music among young people than the number of college programs offering instruction, and even full degree programs, in the music. The International Bluegrass Music Association will be showcasing as many as a dozen performance
