• Day 3 at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp

    Mandolin class at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp - photo © Jim Morgan Day three of the Monroe Mandolin Camp (MMC) delivered a vibrant mix of tradition, innovation, and connection. MMC continues to honor the roots of Bill Monroe's music while fostering fresh

  • Missin’ Mississippi and You from Alan Sibley

    Mississippi mandolinist, vocalist, and bandleader Alan Sibley has a new single, Missin' Mississippi And You, sung as a duet with Corrina Rose Logston Stephens. The song was written by fellow Mississippian Leonard Barrier, a waltz-time country ballad about longing for home,

  • Day 2 at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp

    Tony Williamson shows off his Loars at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp - photo © Jim Morgan Day two at 12th annual Monroe Mandolin Camp delivered what pickers and players live for—deep musical knowledge, legendary instructors, and the kind of late-night jamming

  • Smell the Rose from The Foreign Landers

    The Foreign Landers, i.e., Tabitha and David Benedict, have a lovely new song today as their latest single, one called Smell the Rose. It comes from a new project they have recently completed, soon to be released. David shared a few

  • J.R. Freeland to Route 3

    Route 3 has announced the addition of J.R. Freeland to the band on banjo, filling the spot recently vacated by Janice Martin. Freeland is a Missouri native, where he was raised in a bluegrass family, starting on the banjo at age

  • Day 1 at Monroe Mandolin Camp 2025

    Faculty at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp - photo © Jim Morgan Heidi Herzog, Executive Director of the annual Monroe Mandolin Camp, has agreed to share daily reports on the 2025 event, currently running in North Carolina. Here is day one. The

  • Not OK, My Brother from Tidalwave Road

    Kentucky's Tidalwave Road is back with another single, the third from their upcoming debut album with Pinecastle Records, Skin and Bone. Tidalwave Road is a family band, but not in the traditional parents and children model we see so often in