Club Passim is a venerated acoustic music club just across from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. It is run by a membership-funded, non-profit arts organization which keeps the small, intimate setting largely as it has been since the basement location
After several years of planning and fundraising, the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY is ready to break ground for their new facility along the Ohio River in downtown Owensboro. A ceremonial groundbreaking is scheduled on June 23 at noon with
Mountain Home Music has released an in-studio music video from The Grascals, showing the band recording the first single from their current album, and then there's this. For my money, perhaps the hottest new song in bluegrass so far this year is this
Bright Star, the new musical featuring music composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has announced a closing date of June 26 at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. It officially opened on March 24 after several years of development on
Record temperatures didn’t deter a large crowd visiting Nashville, TN to see Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road’s performance at CMAFest this past weekend. They were one of the few bluegrass bands who played the Durango Music Spot in the Music City
Tom Nechville and his Nechville Musical Products company is celebrating 30 years of banjo building with a new limited production model they are dubbing XXX. Representing the Roman numerals for 30, the XXX is constructed with very high grade curly
Pati Crooker Mulligan, who ran the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, ME for nearly 30 years, passed away over the weekend. She was 68 years of age when she died on June 12. Pati and her family were hosts to
Mountain Home Music has released a first look at the footage captured at a live taping with Flatt Lonesome at the Historic Isis Dinner Theater in Asheville, NC this past April. The band staged the special concert event April 28 and invited all their fans to come
Sons of the South, a venerable and longstanding bluegrass band from Statesville, won the top prize at last month's Got To Be NC festival in Raleigh. The band has been performing together for more than 50 years with a rotating cast of
We wrote last fall about the opening of The Banjo Cellar in Williamstown, KY, a joint venture between banjo pickers Elmer Burchett and Megan McKamey. There they buy, sell, teach, and repair all things banjo and bluegrass. The pair acquired two
