Author: John Lawless

With thousands of old time and bluegrass enthusiasts converging this week for the Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, VA, the city's Chestnut Creek School of the Arts has scheduled a week's worth of activities related to the festival in its two Galax

Missy Raines has announced a number of changes with her touring group, The New Hip, and has recently signed with the Nashville-based agency Lost Buffalo Artists for representation. The New Hip has welcomed Jake Stargel in on guitar. A veteran of

Two powerful forces behind the scenes in bluegrass music have today announced that they will henceforth be working together. Moonstruck Management and Hope River Entertainment will merge the two companies under the Moonstruck banner. Penni McDaniel has run Hope River as

In Tune is a new, young bluegrass band consisting of three teen siblings from Kalona, IA and a mandolinist from Miami, FL. They all met while participating at the National Bible Bee, and their shared loved of bluegrass music sparked a fast

Butch Robins, banjo player with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1977 to 1981, has been announced as the 2016 inductee into the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame. The official induction will take place during the Bill Monroe Hall

If you've been to the IBMA's World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, NC, you know that the city does bluegrass proud. In addition to serving as warm and welcoming hosts for the assembled grassers from all over the world, they

The Wimberley Bluegrass Band is a group of four siblings from Orange County, California who play and sing bluegrass music. While all are still young, they are already experienced performers, having worked festivals and shows all over their state and the southwestern

Flashback, the reunion band featuring former members of J.D. Crowe & the New South from the 1990s, has released a second single from their upcoming debut album to bluegrass radio. This is the group that recorded the Flashback album with Crowe

While visiting family, and attending the Brewer Family Reunion, Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers were given a personal tour of the Mapes Piano Wire Company on August 1. Mapes manufactures string wire in Elizabethton, TN and supply all sorts of wire to popular instrument string

Lou Reid & Carolina have a music video for The Crooked Road, a song on their new Rollin' On CD, written by Ellen Britton and the late Will Hopkins. The song, and the video, celebrate The Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail