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Bluegrass lovers know that hot young pickers show up just about everywhere you look. You see them at festivals all over the world, at fiddler's conventions, and at amateur pickings in every imaginable setting. Some may just be precocious youngsters,

The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass for America has announced the nominees for their 2016 Bluegrass Awards. Winners will be announced during their Awards Show on February 7, the closing event during the 2016 SPBGMA Convention in Nashville, TN. To

How about some fine old time music to point us all towards the weekend. Here's Bruce Molsky and his Mountain Drifters doing a bang up job on an old chestnut, Across The Plains of Illinois. Bruce credits finding this version in

Our Czech bluegrass friend Kiki Otáhalová has shared a video she created during the 11th Winter Musician Camp hosted in the Low Tatras Mountains in the Slovak Republic. It's a limited attendance gathering of musicians and friends, held in a large

Great news for fans of Flatt Lonesome. The fresh-faced sextet has planned a special online concert for January 28 that allows them to combine two of their passions, and have a big time doing it. All the band members have become big

We're well into the new year, and it's plenty cold outside, which means that the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America convention in Nashville is right around the corner. Set for February 4-7 in the Sheraton Music City hotel, the

We know that many of our readers are regular viewers of Reno's Old Time Music on RFD-TV. Each Saturday evening Ronnie Reno plays and sings the music he grew up on with his dad, Don Reno, and the classic songs of

Here's a very clever music video from The Jaywalkers, a young alt-grass trio from the north west of England. Its Been A Long Day is one of the tracks from Weave, the group's 2015 recording for Rootbeat Records. It's a lovely song, featuring

Last week when Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley were making a run through Florida, with sold out shows in Sarasota and Suffer, they stopped by the Sarasota Herald Tribune to record an episode of their Ticket TV web program. Rob and Trey

Young Jacob Underwood, banjo picker for Illinois' Bluegrass Express, has released a video overview of his new solo project, The Banjo Files. The album features Jacob's crisp traditional-style banjo on ten tracks mixing a few of his original tunes with some