Author: John Lawless

Photo of Steve Sutton by Ted Lehmann Well-known North Carolina banjo player Steve Sutton passed away unexpectedly yesterday at home in Waynesville, NC. He was 61 years of age. Steve had been through multiple surgeries on his neck and spine in the

Ernie and Debi Evans of Evans Media Source have expanded their entertainment management operations in Florida even further with the news today that they are assuming management of the Shake Rag Cultural Center in Gainesville. This change was precipitated by

Earlier this year, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers did a performance with Alternative Strings, a group of middle and high school students in Centerville, OH who meet after school to learn string music, including traditional mountain tunes. Their director, Doug

Greg Yates, lifelong member of The Yates Brothers bluegrass band, died on May 7. He was 56 years old. Greg had been dealing with pancreatitis, and underwent major surgery last year at UVA Hospital. More recently he had suffered a massive

Virginia's Crooked Road, an agency that uses traditional mountain music and culture as a tourism draw for the southwestern parts of the state, has announced a June release for A Century of Heritage Guitar Music. This 2-CD set will feature

Pam Pruett, Naomi Orr, and Becky Rhodes at St Paul School Back in January, we wrote about the custom engraved headstone installed at the gravesite of legendary bluegrass singer James King after a group of volunteers raised the money required through

Greg and Janet Deering with Stan Werbin and Cynthia Bridge and Deering's 100,000th banjo. Deering Banjos and Elderly Instruments are working together to auction a very special instrument to benefit the IBMA Trust Fund. The fund was established in 1987 as a means

Good news for bluegrass lovers in central Colorado. The long-running Golden Music Festival, which has brought local and regional bluegrass sounds to Golden each year, will live on in the newly-launched GoldenGrass festival this June. It appears that the Golden Music

The latest release in the CMH Records' Pickin' On Series is Pickin’ On Nirvana: The Bluegrass Tribute, which features 11 grassified covers of songs initially recorded by the legendary Seattle grunge rockers. Alabama's Iron Horse cut this project in their Muscle

With banjoist Richard Ciferský's return to the Slovak Republic after a time in the US, he has created a touring duo with fiddler and vocalist Martin Burza. They have chosen to perform under the same name they had used in