With North Carolina vaccines up and COVID cases down, the state is gradually rolling back restrictions and outdoor events are returning. One of those is the 41st Annual Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival held at the Denton Farm Park in the central part of the state. During the quarantine of 2020, the mando master's Mother’s [...]
Doyle Lawson, 43 year veteran leader of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, has announced that he will be stepping away from that role at the end of 2022. With nearly six decades as a professional bluegrass entertainer under his belt, Lawson is clearly the reigning senior statesman in our music. Still active as a touring artist, [...]
Attention mandolin fans! Billy Blue Records has released an interesting one-off single featuring two of the preeminent bluegrass mandolinists of the past 35 years, Doyle Lawson and Alan Bibey. Both have been innovators in our music for decades, and while Lawson has Bibey beat by 20 years or so, they each field a touring bluegrass [...]
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are offering a look at the new edition of the band, and their new sound, with a first single this week from an upcoming album for Billy Blue Records. Lawson has had the boys in the studio this past month, and a new record is nearly finished. A debut single drops [...]
The 41st Annual Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Bluegrass Music Festival will return May 6-8 at the Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. Due to the pandemic, last year's event was moved from May to September. This year it returns to its annual Mother's Day weekend schedule. As they did in the fall, the park is [...]
The bluegrass world is just coming to terms with the loss of Steve Gulley earlier this year to an aggressive intestinal cancer. He passed on August 18, not even a month after receiving his diagnosis, many years too soon. Recently a number of his close friends in the bluegrass business got together to record a [...]
Scott Napier, professional bluegrass mandolinist and Associate Professor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music, is doing another giveaway from his rich collection of bluegrass albums. Back in August, he did this once before, giving away five classic records to young pickers learning the ways of the grass. This time, Scott is again [...]
Neither a global pandemic nor intermittent showers could dampen the spirit nor the music this past weekend at the Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. Doyle Lawson’s 40th Annual Bluegrass Festival was one for the record books. With seating spaced to maintain social distancing and a covered pavilion to keep attendees dry, the event ran [...]
Even in the midst of a pandemic, the show must go on and that is what is happening this weekend at the 40th Annual Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival held at Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. The event has faced several challenges. Its promoter, Brown Loflin, passed away last September. The festival, normally held [...]
There is likely no more common topic of discussion in bluegrass circles than Doyle Lawson's latest band. In his more than 40 years as a bandleader - and headliner - Doyle has reformed his touring group more times than he'd probably care to remember, and each time he watches a number of his star players [...]
With North Carolina vaccines up and COVID cases down, the state is gradually rolling back restrictions and outdoor events are returning. One of those is the 41st Annual Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival held at the Denton Farm Park in the central part of the state. During the quarantine of 2020, the mando master's Mother’s [...] 
Doyle Lawson, 43 year veteran leader of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, has announced that he will be stepping away from that role at the end of 2022. With nearly six decades as a professional bluegrass entertainer under his belt, Lawson is clearly the reigning senior statesman in our music. Still active as a touring artist, [...] 
Attention mandolin fans! Billy Blue Records has released an interesting one-off single featuring two of the preeminent bluegrass mandolinists of the past 35 years, Doyle Lawson and Alan Bibey. Both have been innovators in our music for decades, and while Lawson has Bibey beat by 20 years or so, they each field a touring bluegrass [...] 
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are offering a look at the new edition of the band, and their new sound, with a first single this week from an upcoming album for Billy Blue Records. Lawson has had the boys in the studio this past month, and a new record is nearly finished. A debut single drops [...] 
The bluegrass world is just coming to terms with the loss of Steve Gulley earlier this year to an aggressive intestinal cancer. He passed on August 18, not even a month after receiving his diagnosis, many years too soon. Recently a number of his close friends in the bluegrass business got together to record a [...] 
Scott Napier, professional bluegrass mandolinist and Associate Professor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music, is doing another giveaway from his rich collection of bluegrass albums. Back in August, he did this once before, giving away five classic records to young pickers learning the ways of the grass. This time, Scott is again [...] 
Neither a global pandemic nor intermittent showers could dampen the spirit nor the music this past weekend at the Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. Doyle Lawson’s 40th Annual Bluegrass Festival was one for the record books. With seating spaced to maintain social distancing and a covered pavilion to keep attendees dry, the event ran [...] 
Even in the midst of a pandemic, the show must go on and that is what is happening this weekend at the 40th Annual Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival held at Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. The event has faced several challenges. Its promoter, Brown Loflin, passed away last September. The festival, normally held [...] 
There is likely no more common topic of discussion in bluegrass circles than Doyle Lawson's latest band. In his more than 40 years as a bandleader - and headliner - Doyle has reformed his touring group more times than he'd probably care to remember, and each time he watches a number of his star players [...] 