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20 Questions with Katy Daley is a new, ongoing feature here at Bluegrass Today. The column may be new, but you all know the contributor, Katy Daley, a familiar voice from the Katy Daley Show each weekday morning at WAMU’s Bluegrass Country. As the situation allows, Katy will conduct interviews with bluegrass artists and personalities, bringing her wide knowledge of [...]
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be taking on Mike Barnett as their new fiddler. Mike will officially start with the band in 2017, but will be doing some shows still this year twinning with outgoing fiddle man Andy Leftwich who is departing after 15 years with the band. Mike is a Nashville native who [...]
At merely twelve years old, east Tennessee fiddler Carson Peters has already managed to find himself guesting on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, proving his talents on Little Big Shots with Steve Harvey, and even appearing on the Grand Ole Opry numerous times. The next time he performs on the Opry, next Saturday, November [...]
Mountain Fever Records is especially excited to announce details about an upcoming project, a new album featuring songs from the life of the great Mac Wiseman. I Sang The Song (Life Of The Voice With A Heart) doesn't release until January of next year, though a debut single is scheduled for next Tuesday. The 91-year-old bluegrass and [...]
With so many subgenres and genre mixes and edge-of-this-or-that’s out there, sometimes it’s nice to just sit back and listen to straight-ahead bluegrass with a prominent five string and songs of heartbreak, hard work, and the mountains. That’s just about exactly what listeners get with The Road Back Home, the debut album from multi-instrumentalist and singer [...]
Rob Ickes and Betty Wheeler, who operate the ResoSummit instructional camp in Nashville each November, have announced the winner of their annual Houston Caldwell Scholarship for 2016. The scholarship provides free tuition for a promising dobro player under the age of 18, and donations from a group of generous donors also provides assistance to other registrants who [...]
The Darell Webb Band is back with a new album, a new look, and a brand new single available today to bluegrass radio. What isn't new is the sound: hard-driving, high-energy bluegrass with an edge. There are new faces in the group this time around. Darrell remains on mandolin and lead vocals, with Collins Miller [...]
The Jaywalkers continue to impress on the British folk and acoustic music scene with their mix of old time, bluegrass, and traditional string music of both the UK and the United States. Mike Giverin on mandolin, Lucille Williams on bass, and Jay Bradberry on guitar and fiddle make up the group. They have produced a [...]
Kristin Scott Benson has released a banjo tab book and CD package for her current solo project, Stringworks. The Grascals banjo picker worked with noted transcriber Russell Sawler to create tab for all the banjo solos and backup from the album, which includes a mix of her new banjo originals and a number of classic tunes. [...]
There are plenty of brother acts in bluegrass, but sister groups have been a little harder to come by. Enter The Hinson Girls, four sisters in their late teens and early twenties, from Lancaster, SC. The girls have been performing bluegrass and Gospel music together for the past seven years, and recently released their third [...]
