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Colorado's Ragged Union is in London, kicking off a two-week tour in the UK that will take them to Liverpool, Leeds, Lancaster, and Whitby. Along the way they'll have shows for the British Bluegrass Music association in Tamworth, and perform US-style bluegrass at the Musicport Festival and the Lancaster Music Festival as well. This isn't the first UK [...]
Andy Leftwich, fiddler with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder since 2001, has announced that he will be leaving the band at the end of the year. He has literally grown up in the group, starting with Skaggs right out of high school at 19 years of age. Before that, he had toured with Valerie Smith [...]
We're winding down our coverage of the 2016 World of Bluegrass and Wide Open Bluegrass events, with only a few more galleries left to post. Here are Tara Linhardt's photos and a few videos from Friday in Raleigh, NC. Bill and the Belles at IBMA 2016... [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="79540"] Robert Mabe Band at [...]
The finalists have been announced for this weekend's Scott Street Five String Finals in Richmond, VA. This invitational event is being held for the second time this year to honor the finest young five string banjoists in the country, and the memory of Scott Street, who dedicated so much of his life to encouraging and [...]
Here's one more gallery of Frank Baker's images from last weekend's Wide Open Bluegrass celebration in Raleigh.
North Carolina's ClayBank celebrated the release of Playing Hard To Forget, their debut album on Rural Rhythm Records, with a concert at the Harvest House Performing Arts Center in Boone on Tuesday night. The house was packed for the show, and everyone enjoyed hearing the guys perform the material from the new CD. It's a whirlwind [...]
Valerie Smith has released her latest album with her touring band, Liberty Pike, along with a debut single from the project on Bell Buckle Records. Small Town Heroes is her first new record since The Human Condition in 2014. That last was a full-fledged concept project, a theme carried over to a lesser degree on [...]
Gary Reid has shared this detailed remembrance of Carter Stanley's last show on October 21, 1966, to which we alluded yesterday. Here he provides some historical perspective on the upcoming 50th anniversary of Carter Stanley's passing, and that final performance with The Stanley Brothers. Bob Artis noted in his book Bluegrass that “the passing of Carter Stanley [...]
For more than 25 years, The Rarely Herd has provided quality bluegrass entertainment in the central US from their home base in Ohio. A lot of pickers and singers have been involved over the years in the Rarely Herd family, which continues to travel and perform together. But it's been 20 years since the original [...]
The Wilson Pickins Bluegrass Promotions agency in Westminster, SC has announced the signing of Indiana's New Balance to an exclusive publicity and representation services contract. The six-piece group plays a hard-driving style of contemporary bluegrass, with Gospel and vintage country sounds in the mix. Their self-titled, debut album was recently released by Truegrass Entertainment. Kyle Clerking [...]
