Music

Rob Ickes has announced a new course on the music of Blue Highway at Rob's Reso Room, his subscription-based instructional site sponsored by Big Tent Music. Though he performs these days as part of a duo act with guitarist/vocalist Trey Hensley,

Pinecastle Records has announced that they have signed a contract with Rodney Dillard, and will release the first album of new music from The Dillards since 1991. The album was produced and recorded by legendary Nashville producer/engineer Bil VornDick, who supervised

Shawn Lane, mandolinist, vocalist, and songwriter with Blue Highway, has released a new single from his upcoming project, Shawn Lane: Family & Friends. The song is one he wrote with Ronnie Bowman, One More, which conveys a message many of us

Turnberry Records has announced the signing of Lori King & Junction 63 to a two-record deal with the label, run by Keith Barnacastle and Jeff Brown. The Iowegian bluegrass band is to start work soon on their first project with Turnberry. Junction

We haven't heard a lot from Alecia Nugent since she moved back home to Louisiana after several years in Nashville in the early aughts. There she recorded several successful bluegrass albums for Rounder Records, in cooperation with producer and co-writer

We are delighted to share this new track from Daniel Crabtree, which will appear on his upcoming album, The Way I See It, his fourth as an independent artist. Crabtree saw some success with his prior project, The Storyteller In Me,

The bluegrass music world is in shock today at the news that lifelong banjo player Kenny Ingram died yesterday evening after suffering a massive stroke. He was 67 years of age. Kenny had spent his youth performing with two of the

We mentioned last week how excited Merle Monroe was to get their new single out, Hello Sunshine, which drops today. When lead vocalist Tim Raybon finished writing it, he and his partner, banjo man Daniel Grindstaff, rushed into the studio to

We have a lot of great new music to share today, starting with the premiere of a track from Fiddler's Pastime, the debut solo project from Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, dynamic young fiddler with Mile Twelve. This Virginia native hooked up with her current

Pete Wernick, aka Dr. Banjo, and his Wernick Method Jam class program are sponsoring a video competition to encourage a return to jamming for those concerned about viral exposure. Their Safe Jam Contest is offering prizes of Dr. Banjo merchandise for