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I recently caught up with Brandon Godman (Laurie Lewis, Dale Ann Bradley, Doyle Lawson, etc…) on a morning hike up one of our many hills in San Francisco. Brandon opened The Fiddle Mercantile a couple of years back, and is

Spanish banjo master Lluis Gomez was one of the participants in last month's CBA Jam-A-Thon, a 48 hour, online bluegrass festival held to raise funds for the California Bluegrass Association’s Youth Academy. The organizers sent out request to musicians all

Bluegrass Country has announced that they will begin airing a series of live concerts recorded at The Old Schoolhouse in Lucketts, VA as part of their free, 24/7 music stream online. For years, bluegrass artists have performed in Lucketts at the

The Pisgah Banjo Company in Asheville, NC has launched a raffle for a very special banjo in honor of Black History Month, with proceeds from the sweepstakes donated to the IBMA Foundation's Arnold Shultz Fund. The Fund was established last

Bonfire Music has released a new music video for Ray Cardwell from his current album, Just A Little Rain. If you follow Ray's career, you realize he isn't going to be cutting another version of a bluegrass standard. Known for years

There are many perks to being a bluegrass polymath, especially during a pandemic. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Troy Engle used his familiarity and expertise with all the parts of the bluegrass band to complete an album he had planned for 2020.

The International Bluegrass Music Association has published the job description for their ongoing job search for a new Executive Director. Current ED Paul Schiminger notified the Board of Directors in December that he planned to retire at the end of his

We've written before about The Hillbilly Thomists, a group of Dominican Friars of the Order of Preachers, Catholic priests and brothers who have a bluegrass band. Of course, the band exists to spread the Gospel message, not to seek fame

Veranda is a country/bluegrass act based in Montreal, who write and perform as a duo in French for a French/Canadian audience. Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle plays guitar and sings, and Léandre Joly-Pelletier sings and adds mandolin, banjo, and guitar to their music. This

When the Golden Guitar Awards were held on January 23 to announce the winners of the Country Music Association of Australia annual honors, Kristy Cox and Tommy Emmanuel heard their names called for Bluegrass Recording of the Year. The winning song,