Author: John Lawless

Terri and Tony Williams - photo by Ted Lehmann We just heard from Josh Williams, bluegrass guitar and vocal powerhouse, and member of Rhonda Vincent & The Rage. His dad, Tony Williams, life-long friend to bluegrass music, is hospitalized now and

Last weekend's 7th annual John Hartford Memorial Festival in Bean Blossom, IN included their first ever band contest. 12 bands were invited to compete, based on advance submissions, with all selected finalists appearing live on stage for judging on June

James Watson, noted clawhammer banjo player and entertainer from Roanoke, AL, died June 1, 2017 from pulmonary heart disease and complications of type II diabetes. He was 81 years of age. For many years Watson performed as a member of Doodle

The O’Connor Band is celebrating the release of their second album this week. O'Connor Band Live! is the record of a single performance by the group, led by fiddle superstar Mark O'Connor, captured at the Sellersville Theater in Pennsylvania. It contains

Here's a story of how one bluegrass singer reacted to the passing of the great Ralph Stanley, and how the experience left him with a loving song of tribute, and a new bluegrass single. Bill Hunter has been around traditional mountain

Folks at The Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, are in a jolly mood this morning. Not only is their showpiece celebration, Mountains Of Music Homecoming, starting today across southwestern Virginia, they have just learned that the Kickstarter campaign to

For many bluegrass followers in the US, our first introduction to Garret K. Woodward was when his name showed up as a nominee for the 2016 Bluegrass Print/Media Person of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. But

Molly Tuttle has been turning heads in the bluegrass and acoustic music world for quite some time, since she was a teen banjo picker with her family band in California. Now a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in

Matt Rue, Joe Mullins, and Jeanne Rue Folks in the bluegrass business know Joe Mullins to be a true Renaissance man. Not only is a first-rate banjo player, one of the best tenor singers in our music, and a successful band

Big Sadie, a modern string band from Chicago, has released a music video for Danny, one of the tracks on their recently-released debut album, Keep Me Waiting. The group is based around the singing and songwriting of bassist Elise Bergman, and