Tray Wellington, innovative young North Carolina banjoist and band leader, has accepted a position as Communications Manager with Pinecone in Raleigh, NC. Pinecone, which is also known as the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, is a non-profit agency dedicated to preserving,
Billy Blue Records has a ripping new single for Darin & Brooke Aldridge, featuring the legendary Oak Ridge Boys, that is sure to be a hit on both the bluegrass and Gospel charts. It's one written by Jimmy Fortune of The
Troy Engle has released a new video, the title track from his current Fox Hollow Memories album. This project primarily features songs that Troy wrote with his good friends, Tom T and Dixie Hall, but this one is one he
Nominations have been announced today for the 64th annual Grammy Awards, and with them the coveted award for Best Bluegrass Album. Winners for most of these awards will be announced in a prime time television broadcast on Monday, January 31,
Copper Mountain Records has released a new single today from Crandall Creek, It's You, along with an accompanying music video. The song features the group's young singer, Abby Latocha, on a new song written by David Stewart and Jerry Lassiter. In his weekly
Mountain Fever Records has released a music video for Jr Williams, produced for his current single, Railroad Town Without A Train. It's a mid-tempo ballad, of the sort we used to get with regularity from Ronnie Bowman, written by Thomm Jutz
The Bluegrass, Old Time & County Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University will be hosting the first of what they hope will be annual String Band Summit in April of 2022. This is meant to be an academic conference,
The International Bluegrass Music Association has issued their followup report for the 2021 World of Bluegrass week, which ran from September 28 through October 2 in Raleigh, NC. This year's events, which included the World of Bluegrass Business Conference, IBMA
Last month we shared news about The Dead South and their plans to release a pair of cover projects next year, built around their idiosyncratic and practically goth bluegrass style. The two EPS are set for release in March under the
As a part of their ongoing series of Banjo Picking Tunes, Mel Bay has released a slim volume of melodies for banjo taken from early European classics. Entitled Early Music Gems, the book was compiled by Spanish banjoist Lluis Gomez,
