Author: John Lawless

Shannon Slaughter & County Clare have a new music video for That Old County Road from their current album, Never Standing Still. It's a live take of the song, shot during the 5th Annual Trantham Farms Bluegrass at the Hangar in Alexandria,

Keith McKinnon, banjo player with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, and his wife, Whitney, are celebrating the birth of a daughter, Bo Harper McKinnon. She was born May 13, weighing in at 7lbs 5oz and 21 inches long. We are told that

Tom Gray, former bass player with The Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene, and many other DC-based bluegrass groups, was married to Barbara Elizabeth Diederich on Saturday May 11 at the Palisades Community Church in Washington, DC. Of course there was music, as Tom sang

Sam Bush received another of many career achievements on Saturday in Bowling Green, Kentucky, when he accepted an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Western Kentucky University during their spring commencement ceremony. In a brief acceptance speech, Bush spoke of growing

Galax, Virginia is a town with a real mystique for lovers of Appalachian musical traditions. There is the Old Fiddlers Convention, of course, held every summer in Felts Park for more than 80 years, which draws lovers of both bluegrass

David McLaughlin, Marshall Wilborn, and Dudley Connell with the Johnson Mountain Boys at Nacogdoches Bluegrass Festival in Texas (July 4, 1987) - photo by Rick Gardner Lil John's Mountain Music Festival and their host band, Sideline, have come up with something special

When young Riley Gilbreath first came to the attention of the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation, he was just a 12 year old kid from Fort Worth, TX. He had applied for a starter banjo loaner through the Foundation's Play It Forward

All Stars of Bluegrass is what Phil Leadbetter is calling his new band, featuring a rotating cast of musicians drawn the the very best our music has to offer. Phil has a core band, featuring himself on reso-guitar, Robert Hale on

The Grascals have announced the addition of Chris Davis to the band on guitar and vocals, stepping into the spot vacated by founding member Terry Eldredge, who has decided to get off the road. Davis is a bluegrass guy from way

Up until now, Asheville Music Publishing has concentrated most of their energy towards the Gospel music market, achieving great success for their writers in that realm. But now, in another sign of the vitality of bluegrass in the music business,