Mountain Fever Records has released their first entry in the 2020 bluegrass Christmas sweepstakes, with a new single from Pennsylvania's Colebrook Road. The guys have put together an acoustic treatment of Run Run Rudolph, Chuck Berry's whimsical holiday favorite from 1958.
OK.... everyone who gets the vapors when they hear anything about Christmas before Thanksgiving, close this window and take your blood pressure medicine. Right now! There is always a plethora of new bluegrass music over the holidays, much of it with
Banjo maestro Butch Robins has recreated as a single, a song he wrote a couple of years back, and re-released it this year as a Christmas treat. It's one called Holiday Toast, which combines an old fashioned wish for the
When celebrated singer, songwriter, and storyteller Grant Maloy Smith published his children's book earlier this year, he recognized that its story simply cried out for a song. So he wrote one, and since his target audience was young readers, he
The Purple Hulls are a pair of identical twin sisters, Katy and Penny Clark, in northeastern Texas who play and sing bluegrass and acoustic Americana music. Their latest album is a Christmas album, called A Christmas Album, which features a mix
Alan Munde and Billy Bright have shared this lively arrangement of one of the oldest Christmas carols in the English tradition. The common lyrics telling the nativity story, What Child Is This, are actually a more contemporary addition to the much
Bluegrass and Gospel music lovers in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia have a special treat coming this weekend. Chosen Road is hosting their Hometown Christmas concert in Princeton this Saturday night. In addition to your hosts with their contemporary bluegrass
Sally Berry is as bluegrass as they come. She works full time in a touring bluegrass show, is married to an award-winning fiddler, and her mom is the Queen of Bluegrass, one Rhonda Vincent. Sally also has a degree in
The Cody Sisters of Colorado had an idea for a holiday treat for people who don't like regular Christmas music. Is there such an animal? The girls took their guitars in hand, and worked up a swinging instrumental version of Rudolph
This remembrance from the recording of Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey comes from Akira Otsuka. Together with Ronnie Freeland, he spent 15 years recording this loving tribute to a bluegrass legend, who was also a dear friend to Akira. It is
