Author: John Lawless

Since our story on Monday about bluegrass singer Ernie Thacker facing the amputation of his legs due to ongoing complications from his tragic auto accident in 2006, we have heard numerous questions about how friends and fans can offer financial

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn have scheduled a series of concerts for the Nashville area in mid-December to benefit a number of regionally-based organizations that they support. Billed as Circle Round Home 2, the two banjo mavens consider it as

Things move quickly in today's digital world, and it seems that its market is clamoring for more Anglo-Irish girl power bluegrass, as newly-formed Midnight Skyracer describes themselves. The five piece, all-female band from England and Ireland just launched in the spring

Mike Bentley has spent the past ten years playing guitar and singing lead with Cumberland Gap Connection. He's recorded three albums with the band, but decided that for his next studio effort, he would go it alone. All I've Got was

It's that time of year again, and Daily & Vincent have prepared a holiday treat starting just after Thanksgiving. They will be taking their 2017 Sprint of Christmas tour to a total of nine cities this year in the eastern and

For the past several years fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert, and guitarist Jordan Tice have performed together as Haas, Kowert, Tice. All are highly skilled bluegrass, old time, and new acoustic instrumentalists, and together they have created a good

The 7th Annual Songwriting Contest of the Maine Songwriters Association was held on October 28 in Brunswick, ME, with six finalists on hand to perform their song for the judges. They had been chosen from among 33 entries for the

Ernie Thacker is a deeply beloved bluegrass artist, both for his soulful singing of traditional mountain music, and for the way he has handled severe adversity in his life. Up until April of 2006, Ernie was one of many young men

Wait a minute... Didn't we all read about this song and its video here last year? Well... yes. Yes you did. Becky Buller recorded this song as a pick-me-up for the people of Madelia, MN last summer, after a large fire

Old time singer and Americana artist Emi Sunshine will be the guest this on B.O.B, Best of Bluegrass with Bob Mitchell, one of our reporting DJs for the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart. The 13 year old Tennessean was Bob's studio