Author: John Lawless

Echo Valley is a family bluegrass group from Pennsylvania featuring six sisters and their little brother. Like so many of this sort of band there is a sweetness to their sound that many people find appealing, and theirs is a

Since the Cumberland Highlanders program ceased production in September of 2016, RFD-TV has been without an all bluegrass performance program on the network. The show had been produced by Campbell Mercer of the Jerusalem Ridge festival fame, and had run

The cross-cultural bluegrass act, Ferguson & Henry, is on tour in Ireland this week and next, starting tonight in Belfast. The group consists of US singer and songwriter, Gary Ferguson, along with Irish dobro master Colin Henry and his son, James Henry,

Nu-Blu has asked us to share their new video today while our US readers celebrate American independence on July 4. It's for their new single, 640 Battlefield Drive, which tells the story of a woman who learns that her son has

Wintertime festivals are nothing new in the bluegrass world, with a number of major weekend events occurring during the colder months indoors. Some choose a hotel setting, while others occupy civic and convention centers, but bluegrass fans have long supported these

Now that the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY has closed to implement the move to their new home a few blocks away, details have begun to emerge about the grand re-opening in October when they rebrand as the

Though it may sound like heresy to some true believers, there was actually enjoyable stringboard music prior to the development of bluegrass with Bill Monroe in the late 1940s. A good many talented artists performed with banjos and fiddles between

Nashville banjo player Todd Taylor is recuperating at home following a brief hospitalization for pneumonia. He wanted to let his many friends who are aware of his serious health issues knowthat he was doing well, and is on the mend. Todd

We have written before about teen bluegrass singer Mikaya Taylor, who got her start on YouTube a few years ago. It's become a familiar story by now. People enjoyed the simple videos she posted online, and soon there was a demand

Mountain Home Music Company continues their summer of singles with a new one from Darin & Brooke Aldridge. This is time it's a classic from the Louvin Brothers catalog, Everytime You Leave, also famously covered by Don Everly and Emmylou