Author: John Lawless

Some of the youngest representatives of bluegrass music had the chance to showcase their skills on the Perelman stage at Carnegie Hall over the weekend. Sleepy Man Banjo Boys performed during the Music of Hope concert on Saturday, a benefit

The folks at A Simple Life magazine have called on a pair of noted bluegrass/old time musicians to help encapsulate the publication's wistful and nostalgic look at simpler times when lives were less stressful and crowded. A Simple Life is a

Back in Raleigh during IBMA week, we had a nice chat with Feller & Hill. They caught us up with their comings and goings, a Boys From Indiana tribute album they have coming up, and how they found themselves working

Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising are ending the year just as they started it... with a new album. In January they released their Lowground CD, and today sees the debut of Spending Every Christmas With You, their first holiday-themed project. The band

Randall Deaton and Lonesome Day Records are making a big play in the bluegrass market, announcing a new partner and plans for a major expansion. And not just any partner. Jeff Carter, co-founder of cable advertising giant Viamedia, has purchased a

Folk Alliance International will include an instructional camp for instrumentalists as a part of its annual conference in 2014, hosted in Kansas City, MO next February 19-23. This will be a first for the organization, which supports and promotes all sorts

Billboard is reporting that Nickel Creek has recorded a new album, targeted for a Spring 2014 release on Nonesuch Records. The news came out as the trio featuring Chris Thile, Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins, reunited on Wednesday for a

Earlier this month Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby stopped by Yahoo Music to record a brief set of songs from their new live CD, Cluck Ol' Hen, with Kentucky Thunder, Ricky's band of red hot super-pickers, in tow. Here's their grassified version

Rob Ickes' 7th Annual ResoSummit convenes later this afternoon in Nashville, with more than 100 resonator slide guitarists from all over the world congregating to study with top practitioners of the instrument. With the start of festivities comes the announcement of this year's

So many bluegrass and acoustic artists have been using Kickstarter of late, seeking crowdsourced funding for new albums, that we can't post all the ones we sniff out online. But here is one of special merit that we hope you'll