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Two Nashville vocal powerhouses have joined together to form The Herculeons, in the persons of John Cowan and Andrea Zonn. They have a new album coming in March on True Lonesome Records which will also feature fellow singing stars Michael

Wyatt Ellis has been getting a lot of mileage from his current single, Winds of Rowan County. He's released it as a double-side, 45 RPM vinyl single, backed with Bill Monroe's Memories of You, also available through the popular download

Saturday morning at SPBGMA brought the first round of the band competition. Over a dozen bands from all over the country took part. Contestants from Alaska to Florida and all points in between vied against one another in the 50th SPBGMA International Band Competition. The

This past Saturday and Sunday the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America held their annual Band Championship during their 41st National Convention in Nashville. Competitors performed multiple times for the judges over the two days, before the

Tonight the 2025 Bluegrass Music Awards are being announced in Nashville at the Sheraton Music City hotel during the 41st annual SPBGMA National Convention & Band Championship. Our SPBGMA correspondent, Nick Newlon, will be reporting the winners as they are announced.

Shamanov Sisters jamming at SPBGMA '25 - photo © Roger Black Roger Black shared this gallery of photos from opening day at the 2025 SPBGMA Fest in Nashville, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the organization founded by Chuck Stearman in 1975.

Pinecastle Records has brought out a music video for the new single from Wilson Banjo Co, just as the band releases a five-track EP, Lonely As It Gets, which nicely showcases the latest iteration of the group. The video is for

The University of North Carolina Press has released a new biography on one of that state's most influential native sons, Doc Watson. Doc Watson: A Life in Music, by Eddie Huffman, relates the history and career of the blind guitarist whose

Veteran bluegrass hero Larry Cordle has released a music video for his current single, Old Richmond Road, consisting of photographs that visualize the lyrics of the song. Old Richmond Road is a cross between a love song to his beloved wife,

Jeremy Chapman, mandolinist with The Chapmans and co-proprietor with his two brothers of The Acoustic Shoppe, a full-service bluegrass music store in Springfield, MO, has a new book with Hal Leonard titled Do-It-Yourself Mandolin. Like all of the books in Hal