• Ricky Skaggs autobiography in the works

    Ricky Skaggs' connection to Ralph Stanley is well-documented, from his having worked as a Clinch Mountain Boy in the early 1970s to making a number Stanley songs into country hits in the late 1980s when Skaggs was a Nashville country

  • Grascals on Fox & Friends

    The Grascals stopped by the Fox & Friends set on Sunday morning to perform music from their new Cracker Barrel CD, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. The album features Nashville's favorite bluegrass group in collaboration

  • Sierra Hull at The Kennedy Center

    Sierra Hull & Highway 111 was featured in last night's Concerts For Young People By Young People series at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The show was also cybercast live and video of the performance can be seen now

  • Thomas and DeLancey concert taping tonight

    Tonight (1/21/2011) I'll be heading out to Garnett, KS to tape a concert by Linda Thomas and Dan DeLancey. Dan and Linda are a husband and wife team who perform bluegrass and old-timey music. Linda is a well known hammered

  • Retired at 35 – with a banjo

    The banjo has always had a unique relationship to television. It has showed up in some likely and unlikely places. We enjoyed the appearance of the banjo on The Office last year. Now it's made another showing in a new

  • Steep Canyon Rangers celebrate 10 years

    Steep Canyon Rangers will mark their 10th Anniversary tomorrow evening (1/21) with a special concert at the Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club near their home in Asheville, NC. Joining them in celebrating this milestone will be artists from

  • Doyle with drums?

    Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performing with a drummer! Has the whole world gone mad? What's next... electric pickups, flying to gigs, a 20 minute jam version of Yellow River? Or, in the words of the immortal Peter Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs

  • Garden & Gun: Bluegrass Nation

    Garden & Gun magazine's newest edition, February/March 2011, is titled Bluegrass Nation: 25 Bands Giving Old-Time Music a Whole New Sound. The issue features Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers as the lead story. Other artists included in the issue