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Nothing gets immediate attention in the bluegrass world quite like a new release from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. After nearly 40 albums under his name, and more than 50 years in the business, bluegrass fans know to bend an ear anytime Doyle has something new. His next album, Life Is A Story, is due later [...]
The 2017 Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) benefits St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The multi-day musical benefit will take place at Hoover Y Park in Columbus, OH, July 19th-22nd. The event has raised $935,447.00 to help fight childhood cancer, and is hoping to reach their one million dollar goal at this year’s four-day event. For [...]
Bon Aqua, TN, in Hickman County southwest of Nashville, will be the site of the state's newest bluegrass bash next month when the debut Bon Aqua Bluegrass Festival kicks off at the Hideaway Farm on July 1. Top bluegrass touring acts will be on hand, including Lonesome River Band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, NewTown, and [...]
We all love getting to see our favorite bluegrass artists close to home, but we can sometimes forget how much traveling they have to do to get close to us. Not only is all that road time tedious and unfulfilling, it exposes them to hazards and difficulties that most of us wouldn't endure for any [...]
The 2016 Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) festival took place last week at the Hoover Y Park in Columbus, OH. Darrel and Phyllis Adkins’ annual event is held in memory of their daughter, Mandy Adkins, who passed away from an inoperable brain tumor in 2000. All of the proceeds generated from the MACC benefit St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. [...]
Anthropologists believe that complex language skills are what has enabled humans to share information across generations, building a vast database of knowledge stored in the culture of different peoples. Countless studies of human behavior have shown that adding melody to words makes them easier to recall, and it seems that every human culture has used song [...]
Laura Tate Photography was on hand for the 2016 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver bluegrass festival over the weekend, and shared this gallery of images from Denton Farm Park. Thanks Laura!
MC Blake Williams brought The Wayfarers, a southeast Ohio band, on stage to kick off the March edition of the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, aka SOIMF. Host band, Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, took the stage next. The band featured several selections from its new gospel project, Sacred Memories. Nothin’ Fancy then brought [...]
No... it's not an early April Fools. It's just Tom Feller of Feller & Hill entertaining himself in the studio while the snow was falling last week. Tom shared this video as a sneak peek of their next single. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="70216"] OK.... so that's not really their new song. Tom says he make [...]
Here again is our annual recounting of the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart, showing the Top 30 songs played during 2015 based on total spins from bluegrass radio. It's a great mix of new songs from our music's top writers, along with a couple of classic covers, recorded by the brightest stars in today's bluegrass firmament. Following is [...]
