The IBMA Foundation, the charitable arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the recipients of its grant funding for 2019. Awards for this year total $14,000, the largest total since the foundation was started in 2007. Grants typically run
Carolina Blue is a band on the rise. The Brevard, NC-based quintet has been riding their original, traditional sound to the top of the bluegrass world this past year, supported by a strong Pinecastle single, Rusty Rails, and the recent
Michael Shannon with Richard D. Smith, author of Can't You Hear Me Callin' The Bill Monroe biopic, first announced back in 2012 and based on the Richard D. Smith book, Can't You Hear Me Callin', is very much still an ongoing
Tonight, we had the presentation of the 2019 Bluegrass Music Awards at the 36th annual National Convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America. The ceremony closed out the convention at the Sheraton Music City Hotel
In a solemn ceremony Friday at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville, six legendary figures in bluegrass music were presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Glenville State College in Glenville, WV. Things got started
Theo and Brenna MacMillan, a sibling duo from Winchester, KY, has a new single released today. It's one they wrote called When You Go, a smooth contemporary bluegrass number with Theo taking the lead vocal. He is on guitar, with Brenna
I'm in Nashville this weekend for the 36th annual convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America. A number of artists are taking advantage of this opportunity to release new music today as SPBGMA gets into
West Virginia's Circa Blue has a new single and a new label to celebrate this week. The band has recently signed with Bell Buckle Records, and a new album is being prepared for a March release. The title track, Footprints in
Radio listeners in east Tennessee who have enjoyed Steve Gulley's tenure as a broadcaster at WCXZ/WLMU were surprised just before Christmas when a change in budgetary priorities at Lincoln Memorial University resulted in the whole station being shut down. Steve not only
Gibson created quite a stir among mandolin aficionados at last week's NAMM Show in Anaheim with the first public display of their new Bill Monroe Hall of Fame mandolin. It was built by Gibson master luthier David Harvey and his team
