Bluegrass At Large

The Carter Brothers (Danny and Tim) are packing their grip for a long, long trip - across the ocean to Ireland. They have two weeks worth of shows running from June 18 through July 1. Tim will be on banjo, mandolin

Penny Parsons passed along this word about one of the legends from the early days of bluegrass music. Penny is a bluegrass writer and photographer who currently manages the performance career of Curly Seckler. Jody Rainwater (a.k.a Chuck Johnson), who spent

Coming up July 17th-19th will be Washington state's 33rd annual answer to Telluride; the Darrington Bluegrass Festival. Surrounded by the Mt Baker National Forest and less than an hour from North Cascades National Park, the Darrington Bluegrass Music Park sits

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum continues with its fight to keep Bill Monroe's mandolin. According to a report on WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, TN, the museum has raised about $680,000 of the $1,100,000 needed to keep several prized instruments

Hi there from Washington State! I manage a hillbilly jamgrass band called Deadwood Revival.  We're "out of the box", but bluegrass fans seem to love us anyway.  Nice. I have a question ....  how are the smaller Bluegrass Festivals faring around the country?? 

The Stanley Brothers' classic 1960 recording of Rank Stranger has been chosen by The Librarian of Congress as one of the culturally-significant audio recordings to be added to their National Recording Registry for preservation. Each year 25 new pieces of

Earl Scruggs will be in his home town of Shelby, N.C. on June 19th for a Homecoming Concert.  The opening act will be the Darin and Brooke Aldridge Quintet.  In review of their new new CD, BU said they "set a new

No, not like that. We're talking about the city of Bath, two hours west of London, England. June 26-28, 2009, the streets of Bath will be overflowing with banjos. Those are the dates for this year's Bath International Banjo Festival. The festival is

Karen Cannon has painted a new tribute to our beloved Father. The painting is titled Salute!, and honors both Bill Monroe and the mandolin he used to create the bluegrass music we know and love. Karen has painted Bill Monroe and

Our friend Lilly Pavlak wrote from Switzerland to share news of the passing of Waldemar Matu?°ka, a popular Czech country and bluegrass artist. Living in the US at the time of his death, Matu?°ka was a musical hero in the