Live bluegrass music is coming back, slowly but surely, as fans, artists, and promoters find creative ways to present it a safe and secure environment. While some will prefer to stay away from all gatherings for an indeterminate time, many
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Whippoorwill Arts Festival goes virtual next weekend
The Whippoorwill Arts Festival, scheduled for the end of this month in the Bay Area of California, will instead be offered as a virtual online event, with donations to the organization requested in lieu of tickets. Whippoorwill Arts is a relatively
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Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival slated for Labor Day
Even in the midst of a pandemic, Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival near Reidsville, NC, believes the show must go on. The site of the first bluegrass festival ever held in the Tarheel State reopened last year under new ownership, that
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Battle of the bands returns for the virtual 2020 Walnut Valley Festival
The Walnut Valley Association has announced the return of the Battle of the Bands for their first virtual Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, which they are calling WVF 48.5. This year should have been the 49th annual festival and
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2020 CamFest at Mandolin Farms goes on as scheduled
We had a bluegrass festival! Since March of this year, and the invasion of COVID-19, bluegrass events and festivals have been all but silenced. Some are having private events and small gatherings, but the places many of us call home for
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Overlook Farm Fiddlers Convention – results and photos
The very first Overlook Farms Fiddlers Convention was held last week in Stoneville, NC. It was held specifically in order to give the pickers in that region a place to go and jam following the cancellation of the 2020 Old
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MerleFest moves 2021 festival to September
MerleFest, the annual mega-fest of acoustic and roots music held each spring on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, NC, has announced a one-time date change for their 2021 event. The 2020 festival had been postponed until next year
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Seth Mulder & Midnight Run to Europe in 2022
We heard today from our friends with My Grass Is Blue in Ireland, who promote bluegras shows both at home, and across Europe as well. Run by the Byrne family on the east coast of Ireland, they had planned to bring
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Boston’s Cantab Lounge to be sold – longtime home for bluegrass
A pall has fallen over the bluegrass and acoustic music community its in Boston over the news that the Cantab Lounge, the region's home for bluegrass shows and jams for many years, is to be sold. The popular night spot, located
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UPDATE – Brandon Lee Adams livestream concert coming August 29
UPDATE 8/14 - Owing to technical difficulties during the July 25 live stream, Brandon Lee Adams and beyerdynamic are teaming up again on August 29 to demonstrate Adams' fine singing, playing, and songwriting, plus the effectiveness of the beyerdynamics microphones










