Author: John Lawless

Over the recent Labor Day weekend, the 46th annual Grand Master Fiddler Championship was held in Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. When the prestigious open competition was completed, Trustin Baker of Birch Tree, MO came out

For those who can't get tickets to the IBMA's giant outdoor urban festival in Raleigh at the end of September, don't fret. The city and many regional businesses have put together a party for you as well, likewise featuring the

Adam Haynes' Scotty Stoneman fiddle, after restoration was completed - photo by RJ Storm Some of the most popular articles we have published in recent years have been about older instruments and the bluegrass artists who have owned them. With a

Instrumental bluegrass duo Alan Munde and Billy Bright have released a video featuring one of the tunes from their upcoming album, Es Mi Suerte. Billy plays mandolin with Wood & Wire, based in Austin, TX, and Alan is the retired former banjo

Scott Napier and Lauren Price - photo by Megan Sweeting Over the Labor Day weekend, there was a beautiful bluegrass wedding in Kentucky. Lauren Price, the mandolin playing half of The Price Sisters, was married to Scott Napier, mandolinist with Lost and

Rudi Ekstein photo by Sandlin Gaither Rudi Ekstein has a spent his entire career in bluegrass music, most of it on the "other side" of the microphone. A fine mandolinist, as evidenced by his new album, Carolina Chimes, much of his work

When County Sales announced their dissolution late last year, a collective sigh went up within the bluegrass and old time music community. The venerable mail order business based in Floyd, VA had supplied first LPs, then tapes, and finally compact

Gonna Rise And Shine from Alan Bibey & Grasstowne has been tearing up our Bluegrass Today Weekly Gospel AirPlay chart this past few weeks, spending the last two at #1. It's an old time, 4 part Gospel number written by Barney

Punch Brothers appeared live last night on Conan on TBS, and performed a track from their latest album, All Ashore. It's one called It's All Part Of The Plan - not really bluegrass in the strictest interpretation of Mr. Monroe's music,

The 2018 Mansfield Jamfest in Mansfield, OH appears to have been one for the record books. In two short years promoter Chris Smith, and his crew, have built one of the fastest growing festivals in the country. We had expected that