The winners of the 1st Annual Bluegrass Music Association of Iowa Awards were announced during an awards show in Moravia, Iowa on Sunday October 30, 2016. Awards were distributed as the closing event at the Association's 7th Annual Honey Creek Resort Festival. And the winners
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be taking on Mike Barnett as their new fiddler. Mike will officially start with the band in 2017, but will be doing some shows still this year twinning with outgoing fiddle man Andy Leftwich
At merely twelve years old, east Tennessee fiddler Carson Peters has already managed to find himself guesting on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, proving his talents on Little Big Shots with Steve Harvey, and even appearing on the Grand
Mountain Fever Records is especially excited to announce details about an upcoming project, a new album featuring songs from the life of the great Mac Wiseman. I Sang The Song (Life Of The Voice With A Heart) doesn't release until January of
Rob Ickes and Betty Wheeler, who operate the ResoSummit instructional camp in Nashville each November, have announced the winner of their annual Houston Caldwell Scholarship for 2016. The scholarship provides free tuition for a promising dobro player under the age of
The Darell Webb Band is back with a new album, a new look, and a brand new single available today to bluegrass radio. What isn't new is the sound: hard-driving, high-energy bluegrass with an edge. There are new faces in the
The Jaywalkers continue to impress on the British folk and acoustic music scene with their mix of old time, bluegrass, and traditional string music of both the UK and the United States. Mike Giverin on mandolin, Lucille Williams on bass, and
Kristin Scott Benson has released a banjo tab book and CD package for her current solo project, Stringworks. The Grascals banjo picker worked with noted transcriber Russell Sawler to create tab for all the banjo solos and backup from the album, which
Gary B. Reid has been given the Best Discography award by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for his 2015 release, The Music of the Stanley Brothers, published by the University of Illinois Press. The award was given in the Association's Best Historical Research
Wilson Pickins Bluegrass Promotions in Westminster, SC has announced the addition of Mike Bentley & Cumberland Gap Connection to their roster. This fast-growing agency, managed by Melanie Wilson, has been extremely aggressive in 2016 and is making quite a name for
