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Rebecca Frazier has never been one to follow all the rules. She was playing overhanded bluegrass rhythm and flatpicking lead guitar when girls weren't supposed to be doing that, and then gave up music for a while to raise a

It's Flatt Lonesome everywhere! Daniel Mullins, mid-morning host on Classic Country Radio, has come up with a clever idea for a special program once a month. Starting tomorrow (October 6), the first Friday of each month will be declared Flatt Lonesome

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections recently announced the winners of their 2017 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Among those winners was the much-heralded biographical work by Penny Parsons, for the book Foggy Mountain Troubadour, The Life

Front Country was among the alternative acoustic groups who brought their music to the IBMA World Of Bluegrass convention in 2015, where they were an invited showcase act. Since that time their star has continued to shine, based on the

Michael Stockton isn't just a dobro player extraordinaire, he's also pretty good with a camera. A point and shoot camera on a homemade selfie stick, to be exact. The Flatt Lonesome slide man went around this past week's IBMA convention videoing

In all the excitement of last Thursday's Special Awards ceremony in Raleigh, it seems we neglected to publish a report on the proceedings, or share any of Frank Baker's photos. The Special Awards are honors handed out to the non-musical parts

Cf Martin and the IBMA have teamed up to offer a new CS-Outlaw-2017 guitar at auction, with all proceeds going to the Bluegrass Trust Fund whose mission is to assist members of the professional bluegrass community in emergency financial need. The

Bluegrass artist Ray Cardwell recently had the opportunity to collaborate with string students at the Ligon GT Middle School on an arrangement of The Whole World 'Round, written by Mitch Jayne and Joe Stuart. Ray's producer, Pat Flynn, arranged the

Thanks to Bryan Haywood for this clip of The Osborne Brothers reunion last night during the 2017 International Bluegrass Music Awards, which we suspect he captured from the live stream on Facebook. It was only the second time Sonny and

When IBMA’s World of Bluegrass business conference kicked off Tuesday in Raleigh, attendees were welcomed to “the bluegrass capital of the world.” But one question was left hanging? For how much longer, since the agreement making Raleigh the host city is