Kathy Sacra-Anderson, Ed Leonard, Donna Ulisse, Jerry Salley, and Rick Stanley Billy Blue Records in Nashville has announced the signing of Donna Ulisse, both as a recording artist for her bluegrass and Gospel music, and as a songwriter for their newly-formed Billy Blue Publishing company. Ulisse is the reigning 2018 SPBGMA Songwriter of the Year, [...]
The latest Mountain Home Music CD from Donna Ulisse is one of those “on the one hand, on the other hand” propositions. On the one hand, Ulisse’s Breakin’ Easy is a textbook example of top-notch traditional bluegrass songwriting. Every listen unveils a new little gem, a turn of a phrase or a couplet that calls [...]
Mountain Home Music has released a new music video for Donna Ulisse, from her current album Breakin' Easy. The songs is Back Home Feelin' Again, written by Donna and Marc Rossi, and while it's not actually the title cut, it should be. The lyrics describe the exact image of Ulisse on the album cover, sitting [...]
Donna Ulisse and Marc Rossi wrote the award-winning song I Am a Drifter when they got together for one of their regular song-writing sessions that, as Ulisse tells us, took place each Monday. On Thursday, September 28 last, I Am a Drifter was named the winner of the IBMA’s Song of the Year Award for [...]
Doyle Lawson and Donna Ulisse Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of popular bluegrass and Gospel singer Donna Ulisse to the label as a recording artist. At the same time, she has signed as a songwriter with Windsor Forest Publishing, Mountain Home's sister company under the Crossroads Entertainment & Marketing syndicate. Since returning [...]
Once again this year, Donna Ulisse is taking her Christmas album from 2012, All The Way To Bethlehem, on the road in December. This project is unique among Christmas-themed recordings, in that instead of new versions of holiday favorites, it features new songs from Donna and several co-writers giving first-heron accounts of the original Christmas [...]
Bill Warren wasn't the only only covering the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Music Festival last week in Michigan. Public television station WGVU sent Patrick Center to cover the festivities for the station's Newsmakers program. Center spoke with Wes Pettinger, who promotes the festival, and several of the performers about their fascination with bluegrass music. The show is clearly meant to [...]
Friday dawned sunny and warm for an ideal bluegrass festival day at the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI. A group of young siblings calling themselves Sugar Creek Bluegrass opened the show. They range in age from seven to twenty from the Columbus, OH area. The Spinney Brothers returned for day two and provided [...]
This month’s Songwriter’s Back Story features the song Wilma Walker, written by husband and wife writing and recording duo, Donna Ulisse and Rick Stanley, recorded by the legendary Doyle Lawson and Quick Silver on their 2015 Mountain Home Music Company album, In Session. I caught up with Donna and Rick at their home in Nashville [...]
Hard Cry Moon is the name of bluegrass singer/songwriter Donna Ulisse's latest album, and her most recent video. It's an old-time country weeper written by Donna and her husband, Rick Stanley, about a long night of tears and heartbreak. This marks her ninth album of mostly original material for Hadley Music Group in Nashville. In just a [...]
Kathy Sacra-Anderson, Ed Leonard, Donna Ulisse, Jerry Salley, and Rick Stanley Billy Blue Records in Nashville has announced the signing of Donna Ulisse, both as a recording artist for her bluegrass and Gospel music, and as a songwriter for their newly-formed Billy Blue Publishing company. Ulisse is the reigning 2018 SPBGMA Songwriter of the Year, [...] 
The latest Mountain Home Music CD from Donna Ulisse is one of those “on the one hand, on the other hand” propositions. On the one hand, Ulisse’s Breakin’ Easy is a textbook example of top-notch traditional bluegrass songwriting. Every listen unveils a new little gem, a turn of a phrase or a couplet that calls [...] 
Mountain Home Music has released a new music video for Donna Ulisse, from her current album Breakin' Easy. The songs is Back Home Feelin' Again, written by Donna and Marc Rossi, and while it's not actually the title cut, it should be. The lyrics describe the exact image of Ulisse on the album cover, sitting [...] 
Donna Ulisse and Marc Rossi wrote the award-winning song I Am a Drifter when they got together for one of their regular song-writing sessions that, as Ulisse tells us, took place each Monday. On Thursday, September 28 last, I Am a Drifter was named the winner of the IBMA’s Song of the Year Award for [...] 
Doyle Lawson and Donna Ulisse Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of popular bluegrass and Gospel singer Donna Ulisse to the label as a recording artist. At the same time, she has signed as a songwriter with Windsor Forest Publishing, Mountain Home's sister company under the Crossroads Entertainment & Marketing syndicate. Since returning [...] 
Once again this year, Donna Ulisse is taking her Christmas album from 2012, All The Way To Bethlehem, on the road in December. This project is unique among Christmas-themed recordings, in that instead of new versions of holiday favorites, it features new songs from Donna and several co-writers giving first-heron accounts of the original Christmas [...] 
Bill Warren wasn't the only only covering the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Music Festival last week in Michigan. Public television station WGVU sent Patrick Center to cover the festivities for the station's Newsmakers program. Center spoke with Wes Pettinger, who promotes the festival, and several of the performers about their fascination with bluegrass music. The show is clearly meant to [...] 
Friday dawned sunny and warm for an ideal bluegrass festival day at the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI. A group of young siblings calling themselves Sugar Creek Bluegrass opened the show. They range in age from seven to twenty from the Columbus, OH area. The Spinney Brothers returned for day two and provided [...] 
This month’s Songwriter’s Back Story features the song Wilma Walker, written by husband and wife writing and recording duo, Donna Ulisse and Rick Stanley, recorded by the legendary Doyle Lawson and Quick Silver on their 2015 Mountain Home Music Company album, In Session. I caught up with Donna and Rick at their home in Nashville [...] 
Hard Cry Moon is the name of bluegrass singer/songwriter Donna Ulisse's latest album, and her most recent video. It's an old-time country weeper written by Donna and her husband, Rick Stanley, about a long night of tears and heartbreak. This marks her ninth album of mostly original material for Hadley Music Group in Nashville. In just a [...] 