Events

A memorial benefit concert is scheduled this Friday to celebrate the memory of popular North Carolina bluegrass musician Steve Sutton, who died suddenly at age 61 around this time of year in 2017. Steve had been a staple on banjo and

After a couple of years' hiatus, bluegrass and Gospel music will return to Donald Brady's farm in Coleridge in central NC. The mini-bluegrass festival kicks off with a covered dish meal at 6:00 p.m. Pickers and listeners are welcome to

The Saltworks Appalachian Homecoming has been taking place in Manchester, KY each year since 2014. Like many community events of its type, this one was envisioned as an opportunity to invite residents and visitors to Clay County for a weekend

Who says bluegrass isn't popular in Europe? Not the folks who run the Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival in The Netherlands. The annual free, downtown event drew 14,000 attendees in 2018, with music lovers from all over Europe making the trip. On offer

Rosťa and Iva Čapek have announced the line-up for what they are calling The American Bluegrass Festival, to take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 27, 2019.  Iva Čapková (Čapek) reaches out ….  "Let us invite you to The American Bluegrass Festival

Friends and bluegrass lovers in southwestern Ohio got together over this past weekend in honor of Tony Kakaris, bass player with Nightflyer, and a well-known personality in the music scene thereabouts. He is undergoing treatment now for a difficult cancer, multiple

Here's some disappointing news about J.D. Crowe, one of the greatest banjo players and band leaders bluegrass music has ever known. The same health issues that led him to retire from performing in 2015 have now forced him to cancel his

Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival - photo © Michael Gabbard Michael Gabbard was in the house for the Friday concerts during Spring 2019 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, put on twice a year

Daniel Mullins was on hand with his camera during the 2019 Wintergrass Festival last month in Bellevue, WA, and shared these images from the stage show.

In 2012, barely old enough to drive but already adept at the banjo, Michelle Canning decided to use her musical gift to raise money in memory of her grandfather, who died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2005. “That first year, I didn’t