Events

The ill-fated debut of the Earl Scruggs Music Festival is now set for September 2022. This large scale event, designed to bring together fans of bluegrass, old time, Americana, and Piedmont blues music, was announced to great fanfare in 2019,

Celebrating ten years of music in the beautiful mountains of east Tennessee, Lorraine Jordan presents Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies this week, December 1-4. Due to surgery, Doyle Lawson will not be able to perform on Thursday as originally planned.

Carson Peters has received a lot of attention since making multiple appearances on The Voice, NBC television's singing competition, this fall. The seventeen year-old from Piney Flats, TN, was already well known in bluegrass circles for his profound fiddle work.

Boston's bluegrass community was seriously disheartened last summer when news broke that The Cantab Lounge, actually located in the adjacent city of Cambridge, was to be sold. For years the club was given over to Bluegrass Tuesdays every week, where

The European World of Bluegrass festival is scheduled to return in May of 2022 after a four year hiatus. As before, it will be held in the Dutch village of Voorthuizen, and will showcase bluegrass bands from all across Europe

The Christmas tour is coming a tradition in bluegrass and acoustic music circles. A number of touring acts have made a practice of learning and performing a special set of holiday music, often based on their own Christmas recordings, and

There is probably no single artist who better represents the folk music of western North Carolina than Doc Watson. The hugely popular guitarist and vocalist from Deep Gap, NC, blind since childhood, had a lengthy career in music that ran

When bluegrass festivals and concerts started offering streaming access to live performances during the COVID shutdowns last year, it seemed that a new industry was being born. While not as exciting as watching music live and in person, it did

Many thanks to Brooks Burris for sharing this gallery of images from last weekend's Old Settlers Music Festival in Tilmon, TX. The festival has been held in October since 1987 with a combination of bluegrass, old time, alternative, and Americana music.

The Black Swamp Arts Council and the Archbold Music Commission presented an evening of history and music at the Founders Hall in Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio on Thursday evening, following on the release of the recent book and album,