Bluegrass band from Kobe University at KazCamp 2025 - photo courtesy of Kazuhiro Inaba Kazuhiro Inaba has sent along a brief report with some photos and video from his annual bluegrass festival in Osaka, Japan. The all-day event always draws bluegrass
We all know the story of Pretty Polly, and her ill-fated decision to go along with Little Willie into the forest, where he took her life for refusing to honor his unseemly request. Perhaps the definitive murder ballad in Appalachian
The 2025 Youth in Bluegrass Competition, hosted by the Ozark Mountain Music Association, was held this past Saturday, May 17, in Branson, MO. The long-running band contest, originally run by Silver Dollar City and KSMU radio, is open to bluegrass
Rebel Records has released a music video to accompany their current single for Rrinaco, Get Along Somehow. This oddly-named outfit is a side project of Corrina Rose Logston-Stephens, she of High Fidelity. Since the band has a very specific concept that
Bluegrass veteran Don Rigsby has a retrospective collection on the way from Rebel Records, which includes one new track, serving as a single just released on Friday. The "best of" compilation, Kentucky Troubadour: The Rebel Collection, is due May 30, with
Adam McIntosh, of Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, shared some lovely photos of their youngest son, JJ, who has just been formally adopted as a member of the family. He first came to them two and a half years
Inspired by our recent coverage of several music scholarships for young students of bluegrass music, we heard last week from Terry Mandell, wife of the late Steve Mandell of Dueling Banjos fame, with an update on the similar fund that
Over the past four and a half years we've watched Wyatt Ellis go from an 11-year-old prodigy on the mandolin, to a polished professional artist at 16. With a lot of help from the Nashville bluegrass community, and the sort
With 2025 being the 50th anniversary of one of the most trend-setting albums in bluegrass history, the original J.D. Crowe & The New South, or simply Rounder 0044, as it is known to pickers, industry folks, and deeply invested fans,
The Po' Ramblin' Boys - photo © Laci Mack Sound Biscuit Studio Productions has a new single today for The Po' Ramblin' Boys, the first with their reconfigured lineup. Since their previous full-length project with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Wanderers Like Me, there
