Author: Richard Thompson

Knoxville’s WDVX will be featuring one of its own, the late Carl Story, in a special two-hour program on Monday, October 24. Story, a North Carolina native and champion of  bluegrass Gospel music who died in 1995, played in an early

The Dry Branch Fire Squad is celebrating 35 years of original entertainment this month. Next month, November 25, the Birchmere, in Alexandria, Virginia, will be hosting a 35thanniversary show to mark this momentous achievement. The concert will feature only the current line-up:

From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, we will, each day, celebrate the life of Bill Monroe by sharing information about him and those people who are associated with his life and music career. This information will include

Colorado has been a hot-bed for bluegrass music for many years. Now one of its bands, the Bluegrass Patriots, has announced that it is to disband. The Centennial State has been the breeding ground for bluegrass music going back many decades,

After an eight year gap since their last release Eddie and Martha Adcock, TwoGrass, have a new album on the market. As the credits show on the CD the Adcocks are assisted on this self-produced Patuxent Music release, Many a Mile,

The universally popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, is to feature Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys next month. While activities to mark the centennial of Bill Monroe’s birth look to be taking place right through to the end of the

We are fortunate that Richard F. Thompson has agreed to continue his look at the history of bluegrass with an ongoing series of occasional pieces entitled, On This Day. On this day in 1948 ..... Lynn Morris was born. A music lover from

Wilma Lee Cooper, the veteran bluegrass-based country music singer, died of natural causes on September 13 at her home in Sweetwater, Tennessee. She was 90 years old and had spent nearly her entire life singing and entertaining. Born Wilma Lee Leary

Johnny Warren, and his good buddy Charlie Cushman, has once more honored Paul Warren by releasing a second CD in memory of his father’s original skills as a supreme fiddler. Just over two years ago the duo released an album of

From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, we will, each day, celebrate the life of Bill Monroe by sharing information about him and those people who are associated with his life and music career. This information will include