Music

The Infamous Stringdusters have joined forces with the Music Masters Collective to offer their top fans a unique opportunity to study with them for four days at the Full Moon Resort in upstate New York. Billed as Picker's Paradise, running June

Seldom Scene has announced the March 14 release of their next album, Remains To Be Scene, with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Remains To Be Scene marks the band's final project with guitarist Dudley Connell after nearly 30 years in that role. Dudley

Buck White, the mandolin and piano playing patriarch of country/bluegrass family group The Whites, died today at 8:00 a.m., Nashville time. He was 94 years of age and had been in ill health for some time. Born H.S. White in 1934

Johnny Pennington, 74, of China Grove, NC, passed away on December 27, 2024, after a long battle with cancer. He was the son of the late musician, luthier, and songwriter, Ralph Pennington. His sister is former North Carolina Bluegrass Association

Pitney Meyer, the new bluegrass outfit consisting of Mo Pitney and John Meyer, has announced a new single, Bear Creek Clay, and pre-order availability for their debut album, Cherokee Pioneer, set for release on Curb Records in April. Pitney, who has

Melton & Miller Music are starting the new year with a single from banjo player/vocalist Gena Britt, of Sister Sadie. Gena had established herself as a bluegrass pro long before Sister Sadie hit it big. From her home in North Carolina

Maine's Breakin' Strings has released a song with a theme familiar to anyone who lives along the US east coast. It's another from their upcoming Homegrown album, which has been delayed due to some health issues. It's titled 95, for I-95,

David Foster, a popular dentist practicing just south of Nashville, sold his successful practice to focus his attention on building banjos and mandolins, and doing custom inlay work. That may sound a bit like something concocted for one of Chris

Indiana bluegrass singer and songwriter Carl Bentley and his talented band have a new single on offer, a true story about a mine explosion 43 years ago in Carl's native eastern Kentucky. Carl says that accidents of any kind affect him

Soulful bluegrass vocalist Greg Blake has a lovely new song to start this new year, a ballad about a West Virginia boy who misses those hills of home. Bluefield Mountain Wind, written by Mark "Brink" Brinkman and David Stewart, unites Blake, a native