Tonight's the night! Mountain Faith's audition performance for America's Got Talent is scheduled to air on tonight's NBC broadcast of the program. This talented, young, western North Carolina band is the latest to use bluegrass music in attempting to win the top
As we knew would surely happen, friends and family of Aubrey Holt, of the legendary Boys From Indiana, have scheduled a benefit concert to assist the medical fund set up his needs. It will be held starting at 1:00 p.m. on
The newly-reformed Mountain Heart has announced a change to their lineup. Founding member Jim VanCleve won't be participating with the group, who has a new opportunity he is pursuing. Stepping in will be Molly Cherryholmes, the southpaw fiddler from the Cherryholmes family
In bluegrass music circles, no question is asked more consistently that some variation of, "What's going on with Tony Rice?" Followers of his music reacted with immediate generosity in 2013 when an appeal went out for financial support when he was unable
Great news for lovers of live music recordings. More than 40 years of live concerts recorded at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA have been donated to the Southern Folklife Collection at the UNC Chapel Hill library. Open since 1958, McCabe's
A third edition in their Book Of The Dawg series, Dawg Jazz, has been released by Acoustic Disc, David Grisman's record label. Like its previous volumes, Dawg Roots and Dawg Grass, this third book collects 20 Grisman compositions in a jazzy vein
Clinch Mountain Boys fiddler Dewey Brown and his wife, Leslie, have purchased a venue in Liberty, NC not far from their home in Burlington. It's called The Liberty Showcase, and starting next month it will be showcasing bluegrass concerts amidst
Radio Velvet, the 24/7 streaming bluegrass station based in the Slovak Republic, has announced a new show starring American banjo legend, Tom Adams. Adams County Banjo will air each Wednesday at www.radiovelvet.eu at noon (eastern US time), which is 6:00 p.m.
Blake Johnson, the talented bass player and vocalist for Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, has been having a rough time of late. Health challenges are always disruptive and unpleasant, but we don't often expect to see them visited on healthy
Here's another of Betsy White's videos from Bean Blossom 2015, this time of Audie Blaylock & Redline, where they perform Sorrows Falling All Around Me at ludicrous speed.
