Music

Pinecastle Records has released a single from The Farm Hands, highlighting the new and more versatile sound that the group offers with their most recent lineup. Since its inception as The Farm Hands Quartet, Tim Graves' band has been an all

Jerry Salley of Billy Blue Records with Billy Droze and Chuck Allen Floyd of RBR Entertainment RBR Entertainment, a small Nashville record label specializing in bluegrass music, has announced a deal with Billy Blue Records and The Orchard for distribution. RBR is an

Here's an interesting new instructional/motivational item for fiddlers and fiddle students. And fans of the late, great John Hartford. Though many people think of Hartford as a banjo player, which he certainly was, he had also dedicated his life to the

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

Mandolinist Jesse Brock has certainly made his presence felt in bluegrass circles this past decade, so much so that the IBMA named him their Mandolin Player of the Year in both 2009 and 2015. Still a fairly young man, Jesse has

William E Jefferson, proprietor of WYTI radio in Rocky Mount, VA, and lifelong performer of bluegrass and country music, has died. He was 92 years of age. Known as Bill to his family and many friends, Jefferson had been associated with

With the bluegrass world still smarting from the untimely death of Steve Gulley, undoubtedly among the finest singers and songwriters our music has brought forth, it is easy to forget that not long before his passing, Steve left us with

East Tennessee State University Professor Emeritus Richard Blaustein, a fine old time fiddler, banjo player, and prolific scholar, has passed away after a protracted illness. He was professor of sociology and anthropology at the university and served as the director

Tyler Jackson, 24 year old banjoist with North Carolina-based bluegrass band, Drive Time, was stricken with a brain aneurysm over the weekend. The tragic news spread quickly over social media and rocked the bluegrass community. The Buies Creek resident became ill

Dale Ann Bradley at Richmond Folk Fest - photo by Dave Parrish Photography Pinecastle Records has a new single for Dale Ann Bradley, surely one of the most gifted and enduring vocalists in all of bluegrass music. Of late we have been