On October 24 at a ceremony in Marietta, GA, Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising accepted the Bluegrass Group of the Year award from the International Music & Entertainment Association. The organization exists to honor the best music produced by independent bands and artists around
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell are scheduled to appear on tonight's October 29 edition of the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on NBC. They will perform the first single from their upcoming duet album, So Familiar, a song they wrote together
It looks like the Earls of Leicester have fallen on hard times. Members of the band have been seen in costume at a number of Nashville-area hotspots trying to drum up custom for their upcoming Music City mini-tour. Somebody should throw
The Mountain Song Festival, hosted each year in September by The Steep Canyon Rangers in Brevard, NC to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County, appears to have been another great success. Artists from all over the world performed
James Reams has released a new single and an introductory video from his next album, Rhyme & Season. It was recorded with the west coast edition of his band, The Barnstormers: Michael Rolland on fiddle, Billy Parker on mandolin, Tyler James on
One of the big hits of this past summer's festival season has been Sister Sadie, a special project band consisting of five celebrated bluegrass artists who are also good friends who enjoy picking and singing together. They first got together in
Ask anyone who attended the 2015 World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh how it went, and the first thing out of their mouth is likely to be about the rain. And, oh my, did it rain! The third such event hosted by
Echo Mountain Entertainment has announced that they are now representing Corey Hensley and The Corey Hensley Band. Bluegrass fans remember Corey for his time with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, where he played bass and sang for four years. Now he has his own bluegrass and
The Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum, an annual event remembering the contributions that Louise made to the business side of bluegrass and country music, will this year honor the late Dixie Hall for her work as a songwriter, publisher, journalist, label head and philanthropist
It's only been in the past few years that songwriter projects have been a thing in bluegrass music. At one time, the common exercise was for writers to record demo versions of new songs, and send them out to interested
