Author: John Lawless

Hammertowne at Silver Dollar City (May 2018) - photo by Michael Cignoli Each spring, Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO goes bluegrass, dedicating the entire month of May to their Bluegrass & BBQ Festival in the park. More than 60 bands

Let's get this out of the way up front... Ashley Campbell's The Lonely One is not a bluegrass album, and she is not a bluegrass artist. She is a young country singer on the way up with a peerless pedigree

Mountain Home Music has released a music video to accompany the new single from western North Carolina's Unspoken Tradition. Land is written and sung by the Tradition's guitarist, Audie McGinnis, who says that he is recalling the classic home truth that you

If you were lucky enough to be in the audience at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on July 16, 2016 for Ben Eldridge's final show with The Seldom Scene, you will have already seen this video which Ben's son Chris

Sugar & the Mint, an extra-talented young group from Prescott, AZ, has a new project on the way called Just Past Midnight. It's their first release since winning the band contest last year at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and they

The 2018 edition of the Old Settler’s Music Festival took place last month in Tilmon, Texas, just as it has since 1987. The stage shows bring together contemporary bluegrass acts with more progressive string bands and Grassicana performers. The promoters shared some

The Milan Bluegrass Festival in Milan, MI is expanding this year to four days, running now from Wednesday, August 1 until Saturday the 4th. It has become a primary destination event in southeast Michigan over the past 20 years, with

Dawn Mac and her new agency, Behind The Mic Entertainment have two new signees to announce. Both Nick Chandler & Delivered from western North Carolina and central Indiana's Borrowed Tyme Band have just joined the roster. Chandler has been touring with

We haven't heard much of late from our Boston buddies in Mile Twelve. They've been touring all over the world in support of their debut album, Onwards, including several weeks in Japan during March. While at the Emelin Theatre in New

This summer the folks in the bluegrass music program at Glenville State College in West Virginia are taking their summer camps on the road, and offering a taste of what they teach during the year at five different festivals over