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Seth Mulder has announced the final piece of the puzzle as he rebuilds his powerful touring band, Midnight Run, in the person of banjo player Carter Lester who has just joined the group. Only 19 years of age, Carter comes from

Excitement continues to build as the second single off the highly-anticipated Arcadia album from Alison Krauss and Union Station, set to drop March 28 on Down The Road Records, has officially arrived. This is the very first track to feature

Fiddler Brittany Haas, currently a member of Hawktail, Punch Brothers, and Crooked Still, has been awarded the 2025 Eisenson Family Prize for American Roots Music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The award comes from an endowed fund

Laura Orshaw with Slocan Ramblers and producer Stephen Mougin Fiddler and vocalist Laura Orshaw may have left The Po' Ramblin' Boys, but she hasn't left her bluegrass music behind. A second project with Dark Shadow Recording is in the works, with

Carolina Bluegrass Style - photo © Dressler Photography Carolina Bluegrass Style comes from 'round about Columbia, SC, and got started the way so many bluegrass bands do. Bass man Tommy Thomas invited fiddler Don Ashley, guitarist Tyler Chasteen, and banjo man

Rising bluegrass singer and songwriter Lydia Hamby has a new single to share this month, a new murder ballad she wrote called Albert County Gallows. Lydia is completing a masters program now at ETSU, and was able to use their recording

Steve Cooley with Béla Fleck - photo courtesy Ashbourne Farms Morehead State University in Kentucky has announced the receipt of a $95,000 donation earmarked for a scholarship in honor of banjo legend and Kentucky native Steve Cooley. The school is the

Compass Records is preparing an 80th Anniversary Stanley Brothers Tribute project for 2025, and are releasing a debut single this week to tempt the palate. It's a new cut of the classic tune, Ralph's Banjo Special, coming during Ralph Stanley's

Florida's Flattlanders have released their very first recording, Anywhere With You, a delightful bluegrass number with a feel good premise. The group started out as a fun side project for the four founders when they had down time from other bands,

Authentic Unlimited has just released the fifth single from their latest, award-winning bluegrass project, So Much for Forever.  Ruby Ann holds all the makings of an instantly-timeless bluegrass ballad. Rooted in the core trio of Jerry Cole, John Meador, and Eli