Del McCoury to receive Berklee honor

Del McCouryDel McCoury at RockyGrass 2019 - photo by Kevin Slick The Berklee College of Music is set to honor Del McCoury with an American Roots Master award when he performs with his band in Boston on September 12. Despite having been founded in 1945 for the study of jazz music, a new popular style at the [...]

Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart – 8/8/14

Our August 8 Weekly Airplay chart is out, and Larry Sparks has returned to the #1 position with Bitterweeds from his 50th Anniversray album, Lonesome and Then Some. The Bluegrass Brothers also return to the Top 5 with Memories Of My Childhood, tied with Rhonda Vincent's Only Me at #3. Filling out the Top 5 are Balsam Range (Moon Over [...]

Thursday at ROMP 2014

Here's an early look-in at ROMP 2014, held in Owensboro, KY near the International Bluegrass Music Museum.   We'll have more images from ROMP over the course of the weekend.

DelFest 2014 report

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou National holidays in America each have their cultural traditions and specific icons like American Flags, Pumpkins, or even Festivus Poles. Typically, family is the center of those traditions. But not [...]

Huck Finn festival under new management

Huck Finn JubileeFor 37 years, Don and Barbara Tucker had run the Huck Finn Jubilee in south central California on Father's Day weekend. For most of its tenure, their bluegrass festival was held at the Mojave Narrows Regional Park in Victorville, but after Don passed away in 2012, the festival moved about 30 miles to the Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park in Ontario, [...]

Photos from Old Settlers

Thanks to Heidi Labensart and John Grubbs for these photos from last month's Old Settlers Music Festival in Driftwood, TX.  

2014 Durango Bluegrass Meltdown

I’ve recently returned from Durango, Colorado, where I found the 20th Anniversary of the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown to have the intimacy, talent, and entertaining times that attendees have come to know and trust. In regard to intimacy, the festival hosts shows through three venues, each of which having a capacity of around 250. That’s right, [...]

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