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Rhonda Vincent & The Rage at the 2025 Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 2025 Remington Ryde Festival is complete. Mother Nature threw a couple curveballs, but everyone soldiered on. Thursday was HOT! Friday never got out

The Travelin' McCourys at the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Festival - photo © Anthony Verkulien Planet Bluegrass did it again with its 52nd Telluride Bluegrass Festival, creating an unforgettable experience for the bluegrass faithful underneath that majestic Bridal Veil Falls. There is simply

There’s something to be said for sisterly symmetry, and even though the women that comprise Sister Sadie aren't, in fact, siblings, the six women that comprise this sextet — banjo player Gena Britt, fiddler Deanie Richardson, award-winning singer Jaelee Roberts,

The Kody Norris Show at the 2025 Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren Hot - the music and the weather at the Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival! Bright sunshine brought out the crowd for Thursday's show. The day kicked off

If there ever was an album title that summed up bluegrass music, it would definitely be the name of the latest release from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers on Billy Blue Records. Mullins says himself in the liner

Kevin Prater Band at the 2025 Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren Larry and Lisa Efaw took over management of the Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival several years ago. It is held in Grange Park in Centre Hall, PA

Edgar Loudermilk Band at the 2025 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren Friday at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival returned to some degree of normalcy after the thrilling evening with Billy Strings. There was still a large crowd assembled for

By his own reckoning — and those of many observers —  it took Mason Via a relatively short time to assert his stature as a mover and shaker within the current crop of bluegrass up-and-comers. Of course that's to be

Driven at the 2025 Pickin' on the Plains bluegrass festival - photo © Evan Barnum Many thanks to Gary Wiggins for sending this photo report from the 2025 Pickin on The Plains bluegrass festival, held on the first weekend each June

Billy Strings at the 2025 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 53rd Charlotte Bluegrass Festival kicked off with a bang. Promoter Wes Pettinger and his crew did a yeoman's job throwing a heckuva party Thursday. MC Terri Grannis