Bluegrass At Large

Just two weeks left to vote in our 2010 Bluegrass Blog Awards poll! It's our annual unofficial vote that matches the final IBMA awards ballot. Early results have The Gibson Brothers running away in several categories. They are way ahead in

Bluegrass Today has learned that Earl Scruggs has been hospitalized in North Carolina. We are trying to get additional details, and will post them as they can be confirmed. What we know is that Scruggs was to have performed a show

Here's a story from Kansas City that won't do much to repair the image of banjo players as hayseed yokels. It appears that two friends were engaged in a heated argument this past Monday night about the relative merits of two

John Duffey to be inducted into Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame "The late, great John Duffey, who fronted the first important bluegrass crossover band, Seldom Scene, until his death in 1996, will become the 33rd member of the Bill Monroe

Phil Leadbetter sent along a report and some photos about a special visitor to one of his shows last week. It seems that pro wrestler 'Nature Boy' Buddy Landel dropped in on a Leadbetters show in Knoxville, and hammed it up

Serious students of the 5 string banjo have long been plagued by a malady known as flyaway fingers. This dread disease afflicts those whose right hand fingers refuse to conform to recommended standards, which suggest keeping the fingers close to

OK folks... here we go. The completely unofficial, unaffiliated-with-IBMA Bluegrass Blog Awards poll is now live. We are once again running our readers' awards poll, mirroring the nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Awards. We have done this for the

OK folks...  here we go. The completely unofficial, unaffiliated-with-IBMA Bluegrass Blog Awards poll is now live. We are once again running our readers' awards poll, mirroring the nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Awards. We have done this for the past

Noam Pikelny has been named the recipient of the inaugural Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. This annual award, determined by a panel of expert judges, carries with it a cash prize of $50,000 and an exclusive

Bluegrass Today will once again run our readers' awards poll, mirroring the nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Awards. We have done this for the past few years, and everyone seems to get a big kick out of it. This poll