Bluegrass At Large

As promised, Special Consensus is sharing their European tour with our readers. Here are a couple of brief reports. We were about to drive through Denmark to get to Oslo, Norway, where we played last night, and thought it would be

James "JC" Curleigh, new Gibson CEO and President Gibson Brands Inc announced today the naming of a new senior management team, including James "JC" Curleigh as the new CEO and President, stepping into the role played for many years by Henry Juszkiewicz.

Since 1977, Tom Ellis has been cranking out quality mandolins in Austin, TX. Bluegrass fans and mandolin gurus may recognize the name in the hands of Ricky Skaggs, Buck White, Steve Smith, and many more professional mandolinists throughout their careers,

Special Consensus in Hempstedt, Germany with their trusty travel van. As promised, Special Consensus is sharing their European tour with our readers. Here is the first installment. We all met in Chicago Tuesday, and headed to O'Hare Airport to catch the 4:oo p.m.

West Virginia bluegrass singer, songwriter, and bandleader Rachel Burge and her husband, Brian, are celebrating the arrival of their second child, Wren Rachelle Burge. She was born October 8 at 10:27 a.m., weighing in at 8.5 lbs, and stretching out to

Special Consensus, another long-running bluegrass band who won big at last month's IBMA Awards, is away for Europe today, and a string of concerts that will find them in 6 different countries over the next two weeks. They are old hands

Since 1987, American television audiences have become accustomed to a Disney advertising ploy following the Super Bowl, where the MVP of the just-concluded game is asked what he's going to do next. The campaign, designed in cooperation with ABC Sports,

In a striking contrast with recent partisan wrangling in Washington, both political parties in both houses of Congress have come together to pass the Music Modernization Act, a thoroughgoing reform of the way that artists and songwriters are paid for

As he has the previous nine years, Rainer Zellner will again bring top acts from the US to Germany this fall as part of his three-week Bluegrass Jamboree. It's an old fashioned package show that travels from city to city, bringing

Family and friends of popular Memphis musician Tommy Burroughs have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to help with his medical expenses. He has played mandolin, guitar, and fiddle in a number of west Tennessee bands and is well