The International Bluegrass Music Association has provided an online form to submit recorded projects to be listed as eligible for voting consideration in the 2016 International Bluegrass Music Awards. Recordings released between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016 are qualified
How do keep a band sounding fresh after nearly 35 years as a bluegrass institution? Strong new material certainly helps, as does bringing in some youth from time to time. That seems to be the formula Lonesome River Band is following, based
Every Spring the attention of sports fans in the US turns to college basketball as the NCAA tournament cracks into gear. Whether you love the roundball or view it with disdain, there's no avoiding the mania that occurs when 68 college
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have released a new music video, a live (in studio) performance of Tonight I'm Gonna Ride, one of Chris' songs from their new album, Run Away Tonight. For most Night Drivers fans, this will be
You know you've got a future bluegrass star in the making when they impress at a young age. In earlier generations, stage parents would often look for ways to get their precocious child performers up to pick and sing with the
Everybody loves anniversaries, right? There's something about the inherent difficulties of modern life that leads to a near universal sense of wonder when anything survives past a dozen years or so. These days it's rare to keep the same job throughout
It's St. Patrick's Day, when everyone in the US turns Irish at least for a couple of hours, and we have a new video from Banjo Loco, those two crazed Nebraskans with their wacky banjos, to help you celebrate. Just in
Another new single released this month is He Will Set You Free, a Gospel song from Christian artist Mike Anderson. Mike has spent many years playing and singing in country bands, and recording his own inspirational songs. He also has a
A few weeks ago we reported that Barry Abernathy, he of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and IIIrd Tyme Out fame, was set to make a return to bluegrass. A new album is in the works, and a return to touring is
Mountain Fever Records has released a debut single from their upcoming album with Irene Kelley, These Hills. The single is Carolina Wind, one Irene wrote with Milan Miller and Thomm Jutz, describing her love for the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina.
