• IBMA announces Leadership Bluegrass Class of 2020

    The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the candidates selected to attend their 2020 Leadership Bluegrass sessions in Nashville this March. Each year the organization chooses roughly two dozen individuals working in the bluegrass world in a competitive process to spend

  • Little Bird recording video from Geraldine

    Geraldine is a Baltimore-based old time band whose debut recording, Harvester, is available now online. Though only playing together for a short time, this bunch already has a repertoire of original material written within the band. They take their name from

  • Bright Star video from LaTresa Smith

    LaTresa Smith has made a music video to accompany her Christmas single from 2018, Bright Star, which features her in duet with Billy Droze, with Pat Flynn on guitar. The song was the closing track on her The Blood and the

  • Dandelion video from Hawktail

    Ever since the appearance of The David Grisman Quintet in the late 1970s, the chief aspect of the new acoustic music genre that has developed in his wake has been its pursuit of virtuosity. Typically written and performed by musicians

  • My Old Tattoo video from Band Of Ruhks

    Rebel Records has released a new music video today from the Band of Ruhks, the second single from their current album, Authentic. It's a clever look at the old favorite breakup song format, sung by mandolinist Don Rigsby, and written by

  • 2020 SPBGMA award nominees announced

    The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America has announced the nominees for their 2020 Bluegrass Music Awards, to be awarded during their annual convention in Nashville on February 2. The 46th annual SPBGMA convention will be held at

  • Casey Campbell takes IBMA communications position

    The International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville has announced the addition of Casey Campbell to its staff, taking the Director of Communication position. Casey is already well known in Nashville and bluegrass circles as a mandolin prodigy. He has been received