Author: John Lawless

Colton Powers, the hard-charging' banjo picker and tenor singer with Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, has announced that he will be leaving the band to start work on a new project he is working on. He shared the following statement online... "I've

Anna Kline, Peter Rowan, and Alison Brown as Pete accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award Lifelong bluegrass icon Peter Rowan accepted a Lifetime Achievement Achievement Award last night at the kickoff concert for Ireland's Your Roots Are Showing conference, Folk In Fusion. The

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Will Clark has spent his life as the epitome of the bluegrass sideman, most recently as mandolinist and lead singer with Terry Baucom's Dukes of Drive. Prior to that gig, which ended sadly when Terry passed away

Jaelee Roberts, the IBMA's 2024 Female Vocalist of the Year, has reached back to 1989 to cover one of Lonesome River Band's top-selling numbers, Looking For Yourself. As much as it pains those of us who remember that song (and

Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys have been invited to perform at the Grand Ole Opry on January 17 at the Ryman Auditorium in honor of his father, Dr. Ralph Stanley's, distinction as the first Opry member to

The Infamous Stringdusters have joined forces with the Music Masters Collective to offer their top fans a unique opportunity to study with them for four days at the Full Moon Resort in upstate New York. Billed as Picker's Paradise, running June

Barbara Martin Stephens, groundbreaking female booking agent and artist manager during the early days in Nashville, and ex-wife of enduring bluegrass icon Jimmy Martin, has released a second book. Titled The People and the Music - Country and Bluegrass That Is!,

Seldom Scene has announced the March 14 release of their next album, Remains To Be Scene, with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Remains To Be Scene marks the band's final project with guitarist Dudley Connell after nearly 30 years in that role. Dudley

Popular Kentucky banjo builder and repairman Arthur Hatfield suffered the loss of his shop to fire on Saturday, January 10. A wooden musical instrument shop contains a good many combustible materials, and by the time the fire department got to the

Buck White, the mandolin and piano playing patriarch of country/bluegrass family group The Whites, died today at 8:00 a.m., Nashville time. He was 94 years of age and had been in ill health for some time. Born H.S. White in 1934