Author: John Lawless

Just Past Midnight is the name of the new album from Sugar & The Mint, a young string band from Prescott, AZ who effectively blend a pop music sensibility with the instruments associated more with a bluegrass group. They range

It's always a cause for celebration when archival bluegrass recordings are cleaned up and released for the enjoyment of contemporary audiences. Especially when it involves radio transcriptions, which formed the bulk of the bluegrass music performed in the 1940s and

The annual KSMU Youth in Bluegrass Band Contest was held this May 26 during the Bluegrass & BBQ festival at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. The invitational competition is open to bands whose members are 21 years old or younger

The bluegrass community in South Carolina has lost a promising young musician, as it is feared that Martin Acevedo died over the weekend in a tragic boating accident on Lake Hartwell. He was 26 years of age. Martin worked for the town

One of the many big bluegrass festivals held over the Memorial Day weekend was DelFest, hosted each year by the one and only Del McCoury in Cumberland, MD. Here is a batch of stage and campground images from the festival, which

The winners of the 2018 Circa Blue Fest Songwriting Contest have been announced ahead of next weekend's festival in Martinsburg, WV. The competition is open each year to bluegrass songwriters who receive less than 50% of their income from songwriting royalties,

Cedar Creek Management has announced the signing of Pinecastle recording artists Kim Robins & 40 Years Late to the agency. The North Carolina-based firm will represent Kim for personal appearance booking. Robins has been selected as an official showcase act during the

In keeping with the Memorial Day theme... Given that this is usually the first three-day weekend in the US once the weather is nice, and many school systems are finished, or nearly so, for the year, bluegrass festivals abound over Memorial

Bluegrass Today would like to wish all of our American readers a happy Memorial Day! We hope you are able to spend some time with your family to enjoy the day, and reflect a bit about the many sacrifices borne

Long running folk and old time duo Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer have added a third, and rebranded for a new album with singer/songwiter and multi-instrumentalist Sam Gleaves. The three met at the Common Ground On The Hill instructional camp, and