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Common Ground on the Hill, home of many annual camps and workshops focusing on traditional arts and music, has been named as one of three new regional folklife centers by the Maryland State Arts Council. With this designation, they become

Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75 years of bluegrass”, we thought that we would collect a few to share with you.  Beginning in February 1981 when

The IBMA Foundation, the charitable and academic arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the 2020 recipients of their Sally Ann Forrester College Scholarship and Rick Lang Music Songwriter Scholarship. These young students and musicians are the first class of

The International Bluegrass Music Association has today announced the nominees for their 2020 Industry and Momentum Awards. Unlike the annual IBMA Bluegrass Awards, which are chosen by a ballot of the professional membership of the organization, these nominees are chosen

Mountain Home Music has released a music video for their debut single from the Alex Leach Band, Take The Long Way Home. Alex and the band have gone with a flower power look for this video shoot, a new wrinkle to

Barbara Jo Kammer has created a socially-distanced music video for her original song, Big Blue Sky in the Morning, which has gotten a great deal of attention online. Kammer has a large and loyal following in Colorado where she lives, with

Lonesome Pine Records has released a music video for Cameron Owens, a talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who studied mandolin in the ETSU bluegrass department. Cameron has been playing bluegrass in western North Carolina for some time, including time as a member of

North Carolina bluegrass lovebirds, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, have announced a new weekly YouTube series, dubbed The Carolina Sessions. Each Wednesday they will release a new episode, which finds them in discussion with their bluegrass artist friends around the Carolinas. At

Rebel Records has released a new music video from High Fidelity, their four-part Gospel arrangement of His Charming Love from their current album, Banjo Player's Blues. Since their founding, this group has been dedicated to older bluegrass and early country music,

This past Saturday, Appalachian Road Show visited the Huckabee Show, broadcast weekly on the Trinity Broadcast Network. There they performed a pair of songs they have recorded, and banjo man Barry Abernathy and his family talked with host Mike Huckabee