A new weekly, half-hour bluegrass television program has been launched by the folks who produce the popular Great American Gospel and American Gospel Onstage shows. Great American Bluegrass now airs each Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on Heartland TV. The show features a mix
Author: John Lawless
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Stuart Wyrick to Flashback
Flashback has announced the addition of Stuart Wyrick to the group on banjo. The band is a reunion of four pickers who worked with J.D. Crowe & The New South in the mid-1990s. They have taken their new band name from the
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Blue Highway postpones Fan Appreciation Concert
Owing to a family health emergency, Blue Highway has announced this morning that they will have to postpone their much-anticipated Fan Appreciation Concert, scheduled for April 30. The show was to have been an all-request program, with ticket holders getting
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Rhonda with 45 RPM at the Station
Last Tuesday at Nashville's Station Inn, Music City's favorite traditional country band, 45 RPM, did a show with Rhonda Vincent as featured guest vocalist. It turns out that a lot of bluegrass artists and personalities are fans of the old school
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BSU Grass at North Greenville University
BSU Grass, a campus bluegrass band sponsored by the Baptist Student Union at North Greenville University in South Carolina, is planning a concert for April 29 to officially release their second album, Just Any Moment. While they receive no class credit for
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Wade Cox passes
Wade Cox, bluegrass musician and friend to absolutely everyone in our business, passed away this past Saturday evening, April 23, near his home in Amherst, VA. He was 43 years of age. I suspect we all have that one friend who
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Blue Highway says Happy Birthday to Gaven
Blue Highway shared a couple of live videos from their 2016 tour to introduce the superb reso-guitar playing of their newest member, Gaven Largent, who turns 20 years old today. Fans of the band who have caught their live show since
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$100 Funeral video from James Reams
Here's another concept music video from James Reams and his current release, Rhyme & Season. The album is a collection of his songs centered around the theme of urban homelessness, something that Reams experienced as a teenager, and is eager to
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Mile Twelve in Ireland
Boston's Mile Twelve has just launched a three week tour of Ireland, bringing their contemporary bluegrass sound to pubs, radio audiences and others across the Emerald Isle. Banjo picker BB Bowness tells us that they are already having a fantastic time. "We've played our
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Old Settlers Music Festival 2016
Thanks to the organizers of the Old Settlers Music Festival in Austin, TX who shared these images of the various bluegrass artists who performed last weekend at the annual alternative music and entertainment event.










