Moonstruck Management has announced today the signing of Balsam Range for exclusive booking and management representation. The band has won an impressive ten awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association since their debut in 2007, taking their name from the region where they live, right where the Blue Ridge and the Smoky Mountains meet at [...]
I read a shocking statistic the other day: 56 percent of Americans have started their Christmas shopping. Shocking because I hadn’t even ordered a Thanksgiving turkey yet, let alone given a single thought to Dec. 25. Well, I still haven’t ordered the turkey, but I am all in on Christmas now that I’ve given repeated [...]
It's officially November, and you know what that means... Christmas music! Some folks still get hot under the collar when they see Christmas displays in the stores before Thanksgiving, but for artists wanting to share new holiday music, the process always starts well outside the season. To have a new album ready for sale during [...]
Balsam Range was so thankful upon seeing their song, Something 'Bout That Suitcase, hit #1 on our Bluegrass Today Monthly Airplay Chart last week that they decided to create a special video as a show of gratitude. They asked fans to submit their favorite travel photos and "suitcase moments," and received more than 100 images [...]
James Joyce was surely among the most celebrated and influential authors of the 20th century. The Irish novelist, playwright, and poet is remembered perhaps most widely for his magnum opus, Ulysses, and shorter works, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and Finnegan's Wake, all of which are viewed as having altered the [...]
Balsam Range performs at the Colonial Theater in Canton, NC (3/4/17) - photo by Wayne Ebinger Balsam Range, the first bluegrass group to rise to the top from Asheville's newly expansive music scene, celebrated a major milestone last weekend with a 10 year anniversary concert in their hometown of Canton, NC. The show was like [...]
Saturday at Christmas in the Smokies opened with several instrument workshops. Tommy Long and Morgan Moore led one for guitars. Ben Greene led one for banjo. Stanley Efaw led the fiddle workshop. Mark Templeton and Pocket Change led off the day with a rollicking stage show. Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers keep the traditional [...]
When Balsam Range came onto the scene in 2007, we all knew this Haywood County band would quickly become a major name in our beloved bluegrass world. It wasn’t because they were instrumental and vocal heavyweights—that’s common in our world; it was because they had that intangible thing, that mojo of musical symbiosis. Each person [...]
Mountain Home Music has just released a music video from Balsam Range with a live, in-studio performance of one of the songs from their upcoming album, Mountain Voodoo. It's for Blue Collar Dreams, a hard-luck, hard-workin' song from Aaron Bibelhauser, sung as a duet by Caleb Smith and Buddy Melton. And in true bluegrass style, this workin' man's [...]
Nothin’ Fancy had a perfect weather weekend for their 16th festival this past weekend. Remington Ryde opened Friday’s show to a “ready for some bluegrass music” crowd. They were followed by multi-IBMA award nominees, Flatt Lonesome. Then Little Roy Lewis and Lizzy Long hit the stage at a hundred miles an hour – the normal!! Roy [...]
Moonstruck Management has announced today the signing of Balsam Range for exclusive booking and management representation. The band has won an impressive ten awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association since their debut in 2007, taking their name from the region where they live, right where the Blue Ridge and the Smoky Mountains meet at [...] 
I read a shocking statistic the other day: 56 percent of Americans have started their Christmas shopping. Shocking because I hadn’t even ordered a Thanksgiving turkey yet, let alone given a single thought to Dec. 25. Well, I still haven’t ordered the turkey, but I am all in on Christmas now that I’ve given repeated [...] 
Balsam Range was so thankful upon seeing their song, Something 'Bout That Suitcase, hit #1 on our Bluegrass Today Monthly Airplay Chart last week that they decided to create a special video as a show of gratitude. They asked fans to submit their favorite travel photos and "suitcase moments," and received more than 100 images [...] 
James Joyce was surely among the most celebrated and influential authors of the 20th century. The Irish novelist, playwright, and poet is remembered perhaps most widely for his magnum opus, Ulysses, and shorter works, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and Finnegan's Wake, all of which are viewed as having altered the [...] 
Balsam Range performs at the Colonial Theater in Canton, NC (3/4/17) - photo by Wayne Ebinger Balsam Range, the first bluegrass group to rise to the top from Asheville's newly expansive music scene, celebrated a major milestone last weekend with a 10 year anniversary concert in their hometown of Canton, NC. The show was like [...] 
Saturday at Christmas in the Smokies opened with several instrument workshops. Tommy Long and Morgan Moore led one for guitars. Ben Greene led one for banjo. Stanley Efaw led the fiddle workshop. Mark Templeton and Pocket Change led off the day with a rollicking stage show. Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers keep the traditional [...] 
When Balsam Range came onto the scene in 2007, we all knew this Haywood County band would quickly become a major name in our beloved bluegrass world. It wasn’t because they were instrumental and vocal heavyweights—that’s common in our world; it was because they had that intangible thing, that mojo of musical symbiosis. Each person [...] 
Nothin’ Fancy had a perfect weather weekend for their 16th festival this past weekend. Remington Ryde opened Friday’s show to a “ready for some bluegrass music” crowd. They were followed by multi-IBMA award nominees, Flatt Lonesome. Then Little Roy Lewis and Lizzy Long hit the stage at a hundred miles an hour – the normal!! Roy [...] 