Author: John Lawless

Mandolin maestra Sierra Hull has announced a special string of dates in December with a holiday theme. Billed as the Christmas Time Is Here tour, it will include four stops in the central and southeastern US that will also involve

Mark Lavengood, itinerant reso-guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader, and his wife, Carrie Labarge, are celebrating the birth of their second child yesterday morning. Betty June Lavengood was born on November 29 at 2:31 a.m. She came in at 5 lbs, 12 oz,

Jesse McReynolds returning home from the hospital (11/29/18) Bluegrass mandolin icon Jesse McReynolds is home again after yet another brief hospital stay. He has been forced to endure several such visits over the past 14 months, dealing with infections that resulted

Serious bluegrass fans are well aware of the deep tradition of music to be found in western North Carolina. So many fine artists and songs have been found in that rich vein, with no less an icon that Earl Scruggs

Pinecastle Records has released a music video for the title cut on their current album for The King James Boys, Time To Go Home. The Boys' speciality is bluegrass music with Southern Gospel vocal harmonies, and that's exactly what they deliver

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Becky Buller and her fine band were musical guests on the Huckabee show, airing on the TBN network on Saturday mornings. The show is based in Nashville, as is Becky and her fellow guests on the

For the 15th year in a row, bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang will take his acoustic Christmas in New England show through the northeastern states. He's assembled a cast of bluegrass veterans to play and sing, and prepared a nice mix of

Back on November 14 at the 2018 CMA Awards, Ricky Skaggs showed the country music world what we in bluegrass have known for 45 years. To wit, that he is among the most gifted entertainers ever to grab a guitar

After a short run of only three years, the Jam In The Trees festival near Asheville, NC has decided to call it quits. Held 2015-18 at Pisgah Brewing Company in Black Mountain, the festival attracted an audience by booking top

Rhonda Vincent will get a jump start on the Christmas season with an appearance tomorrow with her daughter, Sally Berry, at the 95th Annual New York Stock Exchange Christmas Tree Lighting in New York City. Both will sing during the lighting celebration,