The International Bluegrass Music Association is holding an auction to benefit the IBMA Kids on Bluegrass program, which offers young bluegrass musicians, aged 4-17, the opportunity to create and perform music together during the annual World of Bluegrass convention. There
The Kody Norris Show has just released a highly entertaining music video for Waitress, Waitress, their grassed-up arrangement of this Little Jimmy Dickens classic from the 1950s, written by hall of famer Boudleaux Bryant. Kody recorded this one on their
The 54th running of the Grand Master Fiddler Championship took place over this past weekend at the Factory in Franklin, just south of Nashville, TN. This is an extremely prestigious competition, a true testing ground for fiddlers of all ages. The
Well that didn't take long... Just a week ago we shared that Anthony Howell, guitarist with Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, was switching to banjo with the band, the instrument most of us have known him for playing. His comment at
Of late we've been hearing from storied bluegrass singer and songwriter Irene Kelley mostly with new music from her venture with her two daughters, i.e., Women of Kelley. But this week we get a single of her solo work, in
Guitar master Bryan Sutton is on a tear right now, releasing singles one after another from his upcoming Mountain Home Music project, From Roots to Branches. The album pairs Sutton with some of his chief flatpicking influences, as well as
Last week when we posted the Josie Awards winners in the bluegrass realm, we missed that Nu-Blu picked up a win in the Music Video of the Year Performance Focused Duo/Group category for The Will. The song had appeared on
Eastern Kentucky native Carl Bentley is a dedicated bluegrass singer and songwriter, plying his trade now in Indiana, where he relocated some years ago. A survivor in the truest sense of the word, Carl spent six months in recovery from
Discovering Tony Rice, an oral biography of the man who revolutionized bluegrass guitar, has received a nomination for the 2026 Woody Guthrie Book Award, given annually by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch. Written by Bill Amatneek,
From Pinecastle Records comes a new single from Missouri's Route 3, taken from their current album, The Best of Route 3: Live at The Station Inn, recorded in Nashville's chief bluegrass venue before a sold out crowd. For the single they've
