Events

Bluegrass, Americana, and Appalachian string music will be on the menu at the initial Arisaig Americana Music Festival in the Scottish West Highlands this June. It's wonderful to see the embrace of our music back in its ancestral home, where

Great news for fans of bluegrass and acoustic music in southern California. The popular Huck Finn Jubilee festival will return this year after a one-year hiatus. The festival in Ontario, CA had been run for 40 years by founders Don and Barbara Tucker,

Special tributes to bygone bluegrass stars are on the docket at the 2018 Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival in Tunbridge, VT. Three stage shows are scheduled to honor iconic artists, along with a book signing and interview session. Jimmy Martin gets the

The documentary film project chronicling the first five years of the Charm City Bluegrass Festival which we reported on in December has been completed. It is now available for online viewing, coming in at 27 minutes in length. Charm City Bluegrass:

Franklinville, North Carolina will be the site of the new Piedmont One Mic Acoustic Convention next month. Sponsored by the Piedmont Old Time Society, the first event will be held May 4-6 on the banks of the Deep River in Franklinville. The

If you play or follow bluegrass along the Gulf Coast, odds are you have encountered Pat Murphy, one of the most enduring and colorful characters in our music. You may know Pat from his time on banjo with his wife,

The bluegrass community is coming together once again to help one of its own. Last fall, Dan Carty, a regionally-performing bluegrass musician who hails from the Bristol, TN/VA area, was diagnosed with malignant squamous cell cancer in his head and

The Care For Cancer festival, hosted by Zink & Company, has moved to a new location for 2018. The event will still feature a Saturday filled with great New England bluegrass in western Massachusetts, but it has moved to The Stationery

A chapter in the bluegrass music history of Michigan has closed. Zellie’s Opry House held its final show in the old church in Howard City, Michigan. Keith and Terri Grannis have hosted music performances in the Opry House for the past

It's always happy news when another bluegrass festival launches, but even more so when they pop up outside the zone that spawned the first ones more than 50 years ago. There may still be more of these festivals in the