Mike Mitchell, a fiddler, singer, and songwriter in southwest Virginia, has released a music video for his latest single, Calling Me. Mitchell, with the latest iteration of his touring group, recorded this track and shot the video over a single weekend,
Following on the success of last month's virtual flatpicking competition, two of our nation's premier instructors of traditional music, Steve Kaufman and Marcy Marxer, have launched a full series of online championships, under the rubric of World Virtual Acoustic Contests. These
Fretless banjo master Adam Hurt has released a video this week for one of the tunes on his upcoming album, Back to the Earth. The theme of the album is Adam's celebration of the gourd banjo, played in a clawhammer style,
Around this time three years ago we wrote about a song from an artist new to bluegrass, Mara Levine, and her first single in our world, You Reap What You Sow. The song resonated deeply with our readers, with its
The staff and many volunteers with the International Bluegrass Music Association faced a lot of late nights and strained nerves in September, leading up to their first ever all virtual presentation of their annual World of Bluegrass convention. Not only
Pinecastle Records has a new music video this week for Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, featuring one of the songs from their current project, Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin. Like so much of their music, this one looks back to an earlier
Mountain Home Music has released a new music video for Thomm Jutz, one from his current album, To Live In Two Worlds, Vol 2. It's a song that Jutz wrote with his frequent collaborator, Tammy Rogers of The Steeldrivers, called In
Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has released another book of transcriptions, this time featuring the playing of Dan Tyminski with Lonesome River Band. Tristan has transcribed all of Dan's solos from LRB's breakout album, Carrying The Tradition, which set the bluegrass
High Moore and OMS Records have created another wonderful socially-distanced video featuring lead singer Billy Troy, along with Moore and several other talented bluegrass pickers, this time for a dead-on tribute to the great Flatt & Scruggs. Previous videos from this
Rounder Records has released a music video for Innocent Man, a track included on their current album for The Steeldrivers, Bad For You. The video, created by Grant Claire, captures nicely the eerie and somewhat ominous vibe of the track, a
