• Say hello to Mikaya Taylor

    You know you've got a future bluegrass star in the making when they impress at a young age. In earlier generations, stage parents would often look for ways to get their precocious child performers up to pick and sing with the

  • My Little Hand from Corey Hensley

    Bluegrass and Gospel music singer/songwriter Corey Hensley has released a new track to radio, one of his called My Little Hand. Recorded with his own Corey Hensley Band in his studio in West Virginia, the song is reminiscent of many he

  • Louis Meyers remembrance in Austin today

    Friends and family of the late Louis Meyers will be assembling today in Austin, TX to commemorate the life of the celebrated musician, promoter, and organizer who died suddenly from a heart attack last Friday morning. Meyers was prominent in the worlds

  • Mac Wiseman to be inducted into NCAMAI HOF

    This Saturday (3/12/16) in Pigeon Forge, TN, the North American Country Music Association International will host its 2016 Hall of Fame Show at the Country Tonite Theater. Among the artists being inducted into the NCAMAI Hall of Fame this year is

  • IBMA Songwriter Showcase applications now open

    The International Bluegrass Music Association is accepting applications through the end of this month for their World of Bluegrass Songwriter Showcase. It is hosted each year during the organization's annual convention, and will be held on Thursday, September 29 in Raleigh, NC. Ten

  • A Dream video from Ashleigh Caudill

    Here's another new video released today. It's a song from Ashleigh Caudill's upcoming album, Looney Bird, one she wrote called A Dream. She's followed a familiar path for today's most promising string musicians and songwriters. From her home in Colorado Ashleigh moved

  • The Banjo – America’s African Instrument

    Laurent Dubois says he thinks of his new book, The Banjo - America's African Instrument, as a biography of the banjo. Tracing this uniquely American instrument from its West African roots, through its emergence in the folk and popular music of the Caribbean

  • 40 years on KSON for Wayne Rice

    Which bluegrass radio host has the longest running show on the same station? Seriously... I'm asking you guys. We don't know who actually owns this record, but a candidate surely has to be Wayne Rice, who is about to celebrate 40