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Mountain Home Music has announced a June 23 release for Mayhayley’s House, their next album for Lonesome River Band. It will contain 13 new tracks from one of bluegrass music's most enduring bands, now in their 34th year of performing and recording as a unit. Headed by veteran banjo icon Sammy Shelor, LRB also features [...]
Sammy Shelor, fearless leader of Lonesome River Band, and his wife Jordyn are celebrating the arrival of their first child, Samuel Ellis Shelor. He was born on April 9 at 4:57 a.m. at the Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, VA after something of a battle in the delivery room. According to Sammy, the baby's heart [...]
Friday at Christmas in the Smokies combined young bluegrass musicians and a legend in the music. The day opened with Salt and Light, the Moore Family Band. The siblings range from twenty one years of age down to eleven. They provide a high energy, sit-you-up-in-your-seat brand of both traditional and Gospel music. It is always [...]
Baseball and bluegrass... Two of the best reasons I know to get up again each morning, and why the long winter months seem so dark and dreary without them. And of course the two of them have been intrinsically linked since the earliest days of our music, when Bill Monroe used the game to help drum [...]
Frank Baker was on hand last night when Lonesome River Band performed at The Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh for an official kick off celebration for the IBMA's 2016 World of Bluegrass.
This report is a contribution from C.J. Lewandowski, mandolinist and vocalist with the Po' Ramblin' Boys. He helped as MC for the SamJam 16 festival, and shares his experience there for the sake of our readers. As the festival Tee's stated, it was indeed Bluegrass:30 in Piketon, Ohio over Labor Day weekend with the inaugural happenings [...]
With this post we introduce a new feature, which will appear sporadically 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, [...]
Here is another gallery of images from Frank Baker taken at this past weekend's 2016 August Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
Mountain Home Music has released a live music video for Lonesome River Band. It's of them performing Rocking The Cradle at the Historic Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. The song is included on their current album, Bringing The Tradition, released earlier this year. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="74152"]
The Wayne Henderson Festival in Grayson County, Virginia featured a brilliant, blue sky and a full day of bluegrass, old time and Cajun music. The festival featured Lonesome River Band, Michael and David Doucet of BeauSoleil, Terry Baucom & the Dukes of Drive, and the Yates Family Band. Songwriters Jane Kramer and Dori Freeman kicked off [...]
