Happy Day before Christmas, everybody! We hope that you have all reached your final holiday destination, and will have the opportunity to spend time with those most dear to you. Let's spend our Christmas Eve enjoying some of the Christmas music videos
Bluegrass Christmas, the recent holiday album from Jussi Syren and the Groundbreakers, has been named as the 2020 Christmas Album of the Year by the Indpendent radio stations of Finland. Syren, who leads the group as mandolinist and vocalist, chose a mix
Attention banjo players and students! If you haven't already discovered Eli Gilbert's 12 Days of Licksmas videos, see that you do so post haste. Eli is a young banjo player from Maine, just making it into the under 30 crowd, who
Colin Gordon-Farleigh is a retired minister in the Presbyterian Church of Wales, who also writes and sings bluegrass and traditional country music from his home in Cheshire. This year, he has released an EP of Christmas music, Country Christmas, made up
Del McCoury and his talented sons, Ronnie and Rob, have long done their music together. As soon as the boys were old enough to tour with dad, Del added them to his award-winning Del McCoury Band. Now they not only
The Appalachian Studies Department at East Tennessee State University has announced an Artist in Residence position in their Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program. This position is for a bluegrass performing artist with outstanding professional attainments, creative accomplishments, and recognition in the
Uwharrie Drive, a teenage bluegrass band from central North Carolina, has a new member. Malachi Freeman of Carthage, NC, joins the group on mandolin, replacing Ethan Davis. Best known as fiddler, the sixteen year old took up the mandolin in 2020. "I
Phil Leadbetter has announced a new member of his critically-acclaimed side project band, The All Stars of Bluegrass. Gena Britt has agreed to come in to play bass, taking the spot vacated by Steve Gulley's earlier this year. Most of us
Josiah Nelson is a young fiddler from Ft. Collins, CO who is a current student in the bluegrass program at ETSU. He and several of his friends have produced a new album called Vibe Style, capturing their experimentation with meter
Back in the 1950s and '60s, a type of Christmas special was very popular on television, featuring popular singers as hosts. They would appear in homey scenes with their families, singing traditional carols, and drinking hot chocolate or egg nog.
