Events

Greg Corbett, former member of the Country Gentlmen A new honor will be handed out this weekend at the 70th annual Seagrove Fiddlers' Convention in Seagrove, NC. The Greg Corbett Memorial Youth Banjo Award will be presented to the most outstanding

The Old Settler's Music Festival, held in April each year just near Austin, TX, has opened submissions for their 2025 Youth Talent Competition. The contest is open to acoustic artists 18 and under, with the top three winners receiving cash

The Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival, held annually for nearly 30 years in Jackson County, KY, has announced that the June 2024 event will have been their last, owing to the sudden passing of promoter Phillip Akemon last fall. Phillip Akemon was

Elliot King and Truett Wagner at the 2025 Star Fiddlers' Convention – photo © G Nicholas Hancock G. Nicholas Hancock attended the 98th Star Fiddlers’ Convention held this past weekend at the Star Elementary School, in the small Montgomery County town of Star,

Robin Macy and Ken White at Walker's Jazz Lounge in Wichita, KS (2/1/25) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Earlier this month IBMA Executive Director Ken White celebrated his 60th birthday with a jazz and bluegrass bash at Walker's Jazz Lounge in

As the weather warms, thoughts turn to spring and fiddlers' conventions. Three such talent competitions held in Montgomery, Randolph, and Moore Counties in central North Carolina have been a tradition for almost 100 years. They feature the skills of local

Del McCoury at the Remembering Earl Concert in Shelby, NC (2/15/25) - photo © Bryce LaFoon Bryce LaFoon also made it out to Shelby, NC last weekend to catch Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley and the Del McCoury Band at the

Mountain Grass Unit at The Orange Peel (2/15/25) - photo © Bryce LaFoon Bryce LaFoon caught Mountain Grass Unit earlier this month at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC, which followed Billy Strings' show there in town. He has shared some

Dear MariBella & the Pigkickers with Sam Bush at Brooklyn Arts Center in Wilmington, NC (2/26/25) Regular readers may recall a story from November about a very talented young family band from Wilmington, NC called Dear MariBella & the Pigkickers. It

Bluegrass lovers in southwestern Virginia have a unique opportunity on March 15 to relive the music of the 1980s when the Floyd Country Store in Floyd, VA presents A Tribute to Randall Hylton with a Virginia Squires reunion. Hylton was a