• All About That Brooke

    Here's a lighthearted video to get you in a holiday mood... During a holiday concert last weekend at the Joy Theatre in Kings Mountain, NC, Darin & Brooke Aldridge had a special arrangement of a popular song to share with the audience.   Those

  • Bluegrass Mass broadcasts on Thanksgiving Day

    For readers who embrace the spiritual side of the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States, here's a fine suggestion to add to your family ritual. WXXI, a public radio station in Rochester, NY, will broadcast a recording of The World Beloved: A

  • 2014 Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards

    This past Saturday night (11/22) at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario, winners were announced for the 2014 Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards. These awards are organized and distributed by the Northern Bluegrass Committee, whose members, and members of other affiliated bluegrass

  • This video from Kristy Cox

    Australian bluegrass/country sensation Kristy Cox has released a new music music video for This, a song from her current album, Living For The Moment. The song has the perfect theme for our upcoming Thanksgiving celebration here in the US, with

  • IBMA Board Statement

    The following statement has just been delivered to the membership of the IBMA from its Board of Directors. November 24, 2014 Over the weeks since the Board meeting that began another great World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, our Board has spent a

  • Rob and Trey play the blues

    To help promote their new album, Before The Sun Goes Down, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley have released a music video for one of the tracks, Pride and Joy. The song is a cover of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature number,

  • What is going on with IBMA?

    Several readers have asked us on Facebook, in comments to our recent articles,  and in direct communications, to try and explain what has led to the current turmoil within the Board of Directors of the International Bluegrass Music Association. So here is,

  • Behind The Mic with Jerry Eicher

    Close your eyes and imagine this: an upright radio with a big round dial on the front, with fiddle tunes coming through the speakers. A family gathered around it in the living room, waiting for their favorite song to come

  • Three more IBMA Board members resign

    Earlier today, At-Large representative Henri Deschamps, Treasurer Elizabeth Wightman, and Agents/Managers/Publicists representative Brian Smith resigned from the Board of Directors of the International Bluegrass Music Association. These came following a vote during last night's Board meeting to not accept the resignation