Author: John Lawless

The bluegrass festival saviors have another notch in their belt. Ernie and Debi Evans have announced that a deal has been struck to hold the popular Yeehaw Junction festival in a new location. The Evans's had contracted last year with the festival's

A concert is scheduled for November 22 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC to start production for season 2 of David Holt’s State of Music. The show, created in cooperation with UNC-TV, is syndicated nationally through PBS. Holt hosts, and performs

Phil Leadbetter, bluegrass music's very own miracle man, was featured this week on WVLT television in his hometown of Knoxville. The segment was on the power of prayer, and how Phil credits the thousands of people all over the world

Foxhounds is the name of the latest album from the Kathy Kallick Band, set for release today. They have graciously offered to share the title track with our readers, a song Kathy wrote about a cherished memory of Bill Monroe. Some years ago

Jason and Mackenzie Wood, both members of North Carolina's Wood Family Tradition, are celebrating the birth of their first child earlier this afternoon. Ruby Dallas Wood was born at 12:41 p.m. She came in at 7.7 lbs and 18''. Ruby is descended from

The streak is over! For 21 years Blue Highway held the distinction of holding together with its original, founding members. Despite a brief exit by Jason Burleson, who returned not long after, the same five talented musicians have remained with the group

Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers have announced an upcoming personnel change. Fiddler Dan Andree will be leaving the band at the end of the year. His final shows will be during the band's year-end stint at Martyrs in Chicago, December 30-January 1. The band will

Multiple sources in Nashville are reporting the death of Ramona Jones, old time fiddler, vocalist, traditional country music entertainer, and wife of the late Grandpa Jones. She was 91 years of age. Born Ramona Riggins in Van Buren, Indiana in 1924, she

2015 has been a good year for Becky Buller. After starting a new career as a solo performing artist, she has found rapid success in that new role, including being selected as Emerging Artist of the Year from her peers

Kickin' Back with Georgia Rae is a new, weekly bluegrass radio show on WBNL in Boonville, IN. Hosting on Saturday evenings from 7:00-9:00 p.m. is 16 year old Georgia Rae, a two-time state fiddle champion and lover of bluegrass music. Georgia