An important figure in the bluegrass and traditional country music community in southeastern Pennsylvania has left us. Larry Waltman, longtime proprietor of the Sunset Music Park in Jennersville, died on October 29. He was 100 years old. Sunset Park hosted outdoor
Bluegrass Today is delighted to announce that long-time sales associate Ashley Lewis has been promoted to the position of Sales Manager, now handling the bulk of our national accounts. Lewis first came to Bluegrass Today in May of 2014 as a
When The Grascals released the first single from their 2016 album, And Then There's This..., we discovered two new stars in the bluegrass firmament. The song was I Know Better, sung by the band's new guitarist, John Bryan, co-written by
Once again this year, the good folks at Straight Up Strings will be making up a limited run of their signature banjo and mandolin t-shirts, emblazoned with Roger Siminoff's classic illustrations of pre-war Gibson instruments. Pre-orders are being taken now
Like all feeling people, we were horrified by the slaughter at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last week, where 11 worshippers were murdered while attending services, and another 9 injured by gunfire. The attack left all who regularly
Ohio's Nightflyer band is asking fans and friends to add their bass player, Tony Kakaris, to their prayer lists. Tony has recently received a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that attacks the marrow in your bones. He is
Pinecastle Records and the SamJam Bluegrass Festival have announced that they will be partnering next year for the first ever Pinecastle Records National Bluegrass Band Competition. This competition will be held during the 2019 SamJam in Ohio, with the winning band leaving
Each year the IBMA Foundation makes more than $10,000 in grants to worthy organizations that support bluegrass music-related educational, literary, artistic and historic preservation projects, and programs benefiting the general public. The amount available for grants is determined by both donations
Australian bluegrass artist Kristy Cox has a new music video from her current Richochet album. Back home, she is promoted as a country singer, and has enjoyed a good deal of critical success there for her pure, acoustic sound. The video is
Stringletter Media, publishers of Acoustic Guitar magazine, have announced that they are dropping their print publication schedule down to every other month from the monthly frequency they had followed for most of the 22 years the magazine has been active. The
