Music

In the earliest days of bluegrass music it was the product of an authentically rural culture. The only artists making this new music in the 1940s were country and mountain folks whose lives revolved around the land from whence they

Rebel Records has released a single from Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge ahead of their first album for the label, expected later this summer. It's the title track for the album, I Found My Daddy's Grass, written by Cullen's Bridge banjo

Charles Ray Stearman, the founder of the long running Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America, has died at 79. Known as Chuck to family and friends, he had been living in a nursing facility in Brookfield, MO, a short

Willie Kerr died last week and a part of bluegrass died with him. Unless you played or attended the two annual festivals at Gettysburg or shows in and around York, PA, you probably didn’t know Willie. But artists and fans alike

Pati Crooker Mulligan, who ran the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, ME for nearly 30 years, passed away over the weekend. She was 68 years of age when she died on June 12. Pati and her family were hosts to

Perhaps the most difficult problems facing bands of any genre is the desire to grow, stay relevant, honor one’s identity, satisfy fans, and make every project better than the last. That last issue has resulted in a bit of a gap

Music City Roots, Nashville's roots radio and television program focusing on live performance, is stepping into the record label business, releasing live sets from a variety of artists who have appeared on the show. Calling the series Live!, each will

The Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, has released a set of live recordings captured during the 2015 Mountains of Music Homecoming, the first year of their 10 day traveling festival with concerts and folk arts demonstrations at more than

Another member of our extended bluegrass family has suffered a loss from fire, perhaps the most fearsome and unforgiving predator we can face, Chet O'Keefe from Washington state, who wrote Ring The Bell for The Gibson Brothers, had been loading his trusty road

Rounder Records has announced August 5 as the release date for Coming Home, the debut album from the O'Connor Band featuring Mark O'Connor. For Mark, who dominated US fiddle competitions as a teen in the 1970s, he's coming home to the music that