The DC Bluegrass Union has announced the winners in their inaugural running of the Mike Auldridge Instrumental Composition Contest. After several successful years running a bluegrass song competition honoring the late Hazel Dickens, the Union decided to run a tune contest
The fall semester is drawing to a close for college students all over the US, and for those in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program, that means it's time for final performances. To remind everyone in east
Shannon McCombs has announced the launch of a new service for bluegrass radio programmers, GoGo ShowPrep, to offer news, interviews, and sound bites from top entertainers in our music. After many years offering these to country, rock, and Americana radio, Shannon
Knoxville’s Radio WDVX, branded as East Tennessee’s Own, is far from being the oldest radio station that favors bluegrass, Americana, and gives support for local musicians, but the way it started back in November 1997 shows how WDVX stands out
This past weekend, The NFL's Atlanta Falcons once again invited Summer Brooke & The Mountain Faith Band to perform the national anthem before their game on Sunday afternoon with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The band brought Seth Taylor along to play
The 60th Annual Grammy Awards nominees were announced this morning, with good news for a number of bluegrass entertainers. Both The Jerry Douglas Band and Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge were nominated in the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (What If and
The Barefoot Movement has a lot going on over the holidays this year. There are a pair of videos with songs from their new full-length Christmas CD, and a tour starting this week, and running through the 21st, where they will
The young bluegrass scene in England and Ireland has been rightly praised of late, with strong new acts emerging monthly it seems. Equally strong is the action in old time music, as evidenced by this video from Hot Rock Pilgrims. It's
Well... Thanksgiving is officially over, and the Black Friday shopping mania in full swing, so no one should feel badly about donning their Christmas sweaters and blasting the holiday music to the rafters. And it's in that spirit that Milan Miller
The Grasslers - photo by Peggy Porquet We've covered The Grasslers once before, a French bluegrass band with a passion for steampunk imagery, 19th century Americana, and sweeping cinematic vision. Oh, and the music of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. When we last
