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When Po' Ramblin' Boys were out in California last year for the Huck Finn Fest, they performed a short set for the Jam In The Van folks. JITV travels all over the US in a specially-retrofitted recreational vehicle, set up as

NewTown has a new music video for Long Hard Road, one of the songs on their current album, Old World, with Mountain Home Music Company. The Lexington-based band is rooted by the husband-and-wife team of Jr Williams and Kati Penn Williams,

It may be only January, but plans and schemes are already being laid for the 2019 World of Bluegrass convention, hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Association in Raleigh, NC in late September. Artists interested in showcasing at this industry-wide event

Fiddler George Jackson has come a long way in his short life. All the way from New Zealand to Nashville to be exact, where he plys his trade as a member of Missy Raines & The New Hip. Like many schooled

It's been interesting to watch all the different directions into which bluegrass music has expanded. We now have a sub-genre that incorporates traditional country, one that embraces the high energy and stage zaniness of rock, plus the new acoustic style

2019 Pioneers of Missouri Bluegrass: Frank Ray, Alma Curtner (for Herman Beck),  Andy Bressler, Alvin Bressler, Ken Seaman, Cecil Tinnon (for Paul Tinnon) On Friday, January 4, six first generation Missouri musicians were awarded plaques proclaiming them as Pioneers of Missouri Bluegrass Music.

If you've visited the main page of the mega-search site Google this week, you'll have seen this lovely tribute to the great Earl Scruggs at the top of the page. It was created as part of their This Day In History

Mountain Fever Records will release a second single from their upcoming album for Amanda Cook on Tuesday, January 8. It's something of a departure for the Florida-based bluegrass singer, whose previous song was a hard-driving, in-your-face number, You Were Mine. This

Randy Barrett, longtime President of the DC Bluegrass Union, has stepped down after serving for 12 years. But his work in that position was far more than chairing meetings and answering email. He came on the Board during a time of

Sweden's The Original Five, a bluegrass band from Malmö, has released a new single for the title track from their upcoming album Wipe Away Those Years is expected to drop February 1 in all formats on Rootsy Records, and the single