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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 [...]
Our coverage of the 2016 World of Bluegrass will continue over the next several days. Thursday had lots of music to see, and workshops to take, but also offered opportunities for participants to learn more about the IBMA and offer their input to the organization. There was a Town Hall Meeting in which the IBMA board [...]
When Mountain Faith was named the IBMA's Emerging Artist of the Year for 2016 last Thursday night, we were among the many folks nodding and thinking, "it's about time the organization recognized these groundbreaking young artists." As is so often the case, accolades like this are a bit late in arriving, with the band having now [...]
When it comes to resophonic guitars, Paul Beard’s instruments are the gold standard for some of the best in the business, from the late Mike Auldridge to IBMA’s reigning Dobro Player of the Year, Jerry Douglas. But at $4,000 and up, his guitars were priced out of reach of many players. He worked on a [...]
On October 2, 1956, Gary B. Reid was born in Olney, Maryland. He spent all of his formative years in Silver Spring, Maryland, graduating from high school and working in a bank there, in Ashton Maryland, and in Burtonsville, Maryland. As he was growing up music didn’t play a part in those early years of his [...]
Here are some more looks at Thursday's Special Awards ceremony at the 2016 World of Bluegrass Convention.
The venerable Huck Finn Jubilee in Southern California may not get to celebrate its 41st anniversary next year. The Greater Ontario Convention and Visitors Bureau, which took over management of the bluegrass festival in 2014, announced Friday that it was pulling its backing. Visitors Bureau CEO Michael K. Krouse said the decision was made because [...]
Herb Lambert, master mandolinist and teacher from western North Carolina has died at 88 years of age. He was known for his ability to play in the Bill Monroe style, and for carrying those techniques forward to songs other than one Monroe had himself recorded. Many of todays top mandolinists, like Sam Bush and David [...]
Frank Baker shot a great many photos at last night's International Bluegrass Music Awards. Here is a gallery of some of them.
Here is Frank Baker's final round of images from Thursday afternoon at World of Bluegrass 2016.
