Tony Rice

If you need a last minute Christmas gift for the flatpicking guitar nerd on your list, David Grisman's Acoustic Disc and Acoustic Oasis Downloads may have just the thing. They have just released a live set by The Rice Brothers, recorded

Bill Amatneek, bassist on the first David Grisman Quintet album and a four decade bass and banjo pro on the west coast, has written a new biography of Tony Rice, called Discovering Tony Rice. It is scheduled to be released

Kody Norris Show at Camp Springs (5/27/23) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Here is a second gallery of Jeromie Stephens' photographs from this past weekend's inaugural Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest at the Camp Springs Bluegrass Park in Elon, NC. These

The Church Sisters with Caroline Owens at Camp Springs (5/26/23) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Jeromie Stephens braved the rain this past weekend for the Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest at Camp Springs in North Carolina. He shared a good many

The cool dizzily weather failed to dampen the spirits of the artists and attendees at Camp Springs Bluegrass Park near Reidsville, NC, this weekend for the first annual Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest. Promoters, Cody and Donna Johnson, labored arduously

Legendary Canadian folk music star Gordon Lightfoot passed away at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Monday evening, May 1, 2023. Age 84, he died of natural causes. The singer-songwriter's most enduring works include If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown, Carefree

David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label has just released a truly historic recording of Tony and Wyatt Rice in their first duo performance in 1996. Entitled Tony & Wyatt Rice Together!, it captures these two brilliant flatpicking brothers from two consecutive

Cody Johnson, SPBGMA's newly-named Promoter of the Year, is adding a new festival to honor the legendary Tony Rice, at Camp Springs Blue Grass Park in North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend.  Johnson said, "We are excited to announce that we

Mark O'Connor has released as a single an historic recording from 1978 that is sure to excite fans of flatpicking guitar all over the world. It's a lost track from the sessions for his landmark album, Markology, which demonstrated that

This is a follow-up to the Bluegrass Today interview with John a couple months back, which mostly covered his latest album, New Time & Old Acoustic. He had expressed an interest in talking about his years with Tony Rice, so this