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When celebrated singer, songwriter, and storyteller Grant Maloy Smith published his children's book earlier this year, he recognized that its story simply cried out for a song. So he wrote one, and since his target audience was young readers, he

With the rapid growth of home recording software and technology, it's never been easier to create your own album - or single - and get it to the online market. Most new computers ship with at least basic software for

The Purple Hulls are a pair of identical twin sisters, Katy and Penny Clark, in northeastern Texas who play and sing bluegrass and acoustic Americana music. Their latest album is a Christmas album, called A Christmas Album, which features a mix

As befits a city in the Bluegrass State, the Lexington Music Awards include a bluegrass category in their annual music industry awards process. Each year since 2015, both the general public in and around Lexington, KY, and a panel of local

The Mountain Music Project, a film about a pair of bluegrass musicians who visited Nepal to meet and jam with folk musicians in that Asian nation, is now available as part of Amazon Prime. Subscribers to Amazon's service can rent

The Walker sisters have been changing perceptions about bluegrass music for more than 10 years now. Four talented young women with an original take on Appalachian string music, they first mixed their bluegrass skills with pop music standards as Redhead

Here's another new bluegrass music podcast that should appeal to many of our readers. It's called The Breakdown, and takes as its theme to focus each episode on a single iconic album in the genre, going over the history, the

Alan Munde and Billy Bright have shared this lively arrangement of one of the oldest Christmas carols in the English tradition. The common lyrics telling the nativity story, What Child Is This, are actually a more contemporary addition to the much

Here's a fun holiday diversion for this evening, if you're in the mood. Rhonda Vincent and Becky Buller will be hosting an Ugly Christmas Sweater contest from 7:00-8:00 p.m. (EST) on Facebook. Not only will these two bluegrass ladies show off

By now most of us have heard jokes and jibes about how well young people understand technology. "If you can't figure out how to use your smart phone, ask your grandchildren for help!" And of course it's true. Young folks today