Events

Greg Blake, guitarist and lead vocalist for Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, is using his time off while the band is idle this month to tour in Ireland. He is taking many of the pickers who helped him record his 2015 album,

The 42nd Jekyll Island New Year’s Bluegrass Festival kicked off Thursday afternoon in spite of an ice storm Wednesday and slick roads for the bands coming in. The audience was welcomed by MC Sherry Boyd and the Edgar Loudermilk Band

Once again Rainer Zellner has led a troupe of American string musicians through Germany in December as part of his annual Bluegrass Jamboree series. The idea for this tour occurred to him several years ago, to bring talented artists from the

A lot has changed for Bluegrass Underground heading into their eighth season of producing concerts in the subterranean caves of middle Tennessee for PBS television. The show has moved from their original location in McMinnville to a new facility called The

Each year at the summer RockyGrass festival, the folks at Planet Bluegrass put together a number of special stage performances not available elsewhere as an added incentive to join them in Lyons, CO for three days of bluegrass and new

I spent most of Sunday at a final bluegrass concert at FireFlies in Alexandria, VA. Bob Perilla's Big Hillbilly Bluegrass has been playing there Sunday mornings for 15 years. Now the restaurant has been sold and their last day of

In only 5 years the Charm City Bluegrass festival has become an integral part of Baltimore's music scene. Starting as a single day event, the festival has now expanded to two days each spring, bringing the best of modern and

Pickin’ In Parsons has rapidly grown into a healthy, thriving bluegrass music festival in the short time it has been around. 2018 will mark the 15th annual festival In Parsons, West Virginia. Fans of the festival will have something new

Paul Williams and Lorraine Jordan at the 2017 Bluegrass Christmas In The Smokies - photo © Bill Warren Saturday was B to CC day – bluegrass to classic country -  at Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies. The day started out with Cuttin’

The Museum of Appalachia, which has hosted the Tennessee Fall Homecoming Festival for the past 38 years in Clinton, TN, has announced that they will no longer be able to operate the festival. Their board says that the financial exposure