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Pinecastle Records has released another video from their recent self-titled project for Dale Ann Bradley. This one shows the softer side of the gifted bluegrass singer in Blackberry Summer, a reflective song about simpler times, and growing up around people that you love. Dale Ann says that it's one she had written several years ago, [...]
The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Mount Vernon, KY has announced that bluegrass songstress Dale Ann Bradley will be inducted into the Hall as part of their 2018 class. Growing up in the rural southeastern part of the state, Bradley absorbed the various musical cultures that were influences on bluegrass. She started [...]
We caught up with Dale Ann Bradley yesterday to get some details about her upcoming Pinecastle project, due August 18. She is producing, the second one that she has headed up herself, and she tells us that the title is simply Dale Ann Bradley. "There wasn't really one of the songs that I got in [...]
Dale Ann Bradley has announced a change in her touring band. Reso-guitarist Greg Blaylock has had to take his leave owing to a promotion at his day job, and Matt Leadbetter has come in to fill that spot. Matt has worked with a number of top bluegrass acts, traveling with Lonesome River Band, Blue Moon [...]
With Richard Cifersky's recent return to the Slovak Republic, Dale Ann Bradley has today announced the return of Mike Sumner to her touring band on banjo. Mike is very nearly a life long banjoist, starting when he was only six prompted by his dad, Joe, himself a fine banjo picker. After nailing down wins in [...]
We were fortunate once again to have Frank Baker on hand during the 72nd Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival this past weekend in Pennsylvania. Here is the first of several galleries of photos he shared from the festivities.
A few months ago we shared an appeal from Slovak banjo picker and entrepreneur Richard Ciferský, who was seeking financial assistance with the legal costs of obtaining a work visa to play music in the United States. Richard had visited the US many times, but to work here legally and establish residency involves a great deal of paperwork and [...]
I have long believed that Facebook should be fun and useful. It turned out to be both last week. We were on a trip to eastern New York when my wife saw a post from Barry Crabtree that he would be playing in New York on Thursday evening. After trading messages, we found that Barry [...]
After three years traveling with Dale Ann Bradley, reso-guitarist Phil Leadbetter has announced that he will be leaving her band to start on a new project. He says departing is especially tough for him, as Bradley was such an encouragement to him when she hired Phil late in 2012 while he was recovering from his second bout [...]
Pinecastle Records has released a new music video from their new album by Dale Ann Bradley, Pocket Full Of Keys. It's a superb record full of the sort of simple and sincere song delivery we have come to expect from this 5-time recipient of the Female Vocalist of the Year Award from her peers in the [...]
