Bluegrass banjo icon Raymond Fairchild is doing well, recuperating at home after undergoing surgery last week. Some complications arose following the surgery, but he is out of the hospital and resting comfortably. At nearly 77 years of age, Raymond has been
John Treadway of Taylorsville, NC has been announced as the newest member of Big Country Bluegrass. He will be playing banjo and singing harmony with the southwest Virginia band, filling the spot vacated recently when Lynwood Lunsford left after nine years
Cleo Lemons, an early promoter of bluegrass music in north/central North Carolina, died on Saturday, March 5. He was 94 years old and had suffered a major stroke just a week prior. Lemons was among the first promoters to book Lester Flatt
There was a bluegrass wedding in Illinois over the weekend, as Emily Bankester married Mo Pitney. The happy couple, surely both among the finest young vocalists of their generation, tied the knot at the Bankesters home church, Hope Church, in
Here's another new video released today. It's a song from Ashleigh Caudill's upcoming album, Looney Bird, one she wrote called A Dream. She's followed a familiar path for today's most promising string musicians and songwriters. From her home in Colorado Ashleigh moved
Laurent Dubois says he thinks of his new book, The Banjo - America's African Instrument, as a biography of the banjo. Tracing this uniquely American instrument from its West African roots, through its emergence in the folk and popular music of the Caribbean
James Reams has today released this video which serves as an introduction to his upcoming album, Rhyme and Season. You'll see and hear from James and his collaborators in the studio, as he shares some of the words and music included
Rebel Records has released a single today from their upcoming Gospel project with Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers. All Dressed Up is a new song from Jerry Salley that turns the old adage, 'all dressed up and nowhere to go,'
Which bluegrass radio host has the longest running show on the same station? Seriously... I'm asking you guys. We don't know who actually owns this record, but a candidate surely has to be Wayne Rice, who is about to celebrate 40
The horrors! Slobbering five-stringers have been invited to drool all over the proceedings at this year's Monroe Mandolin Camp in Nashville. But seriously, after mando purists pick themselves up off the floor, they'll recognize what camp managers Mike Compton and Heidi Herzog have
