Kids Academy at the summer 2025 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo © Frank Baker With this last batch of Frank Baker's fine photographs from the summer 2025 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, we have his final contribution for the year. He won't be
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More photos from Gettysburg, summer 2025
The Kody Norris Show at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo © Frank Baker Here is a second installment of Frank Baker's images from last weekend's Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival in Pennsylvania. More to come!
Billy Strings to be World of Bluegrass Keynote speaker
Billy Strings - photo © Alysse Gafkjen The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced that Billy Strings will be their Keynote Speaker for the 2025 World of Bluegrass convention in Chattanooga, TN next month. Strings, who may be the most popular bluegrass
Photos from the summer 2025 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival
Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo © Frank Baker Frank Baker has again shared his many fine photos from last weekend's summer edition of the venerable Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. We'll have more of his images
2025 North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival report
David Parmley Band at the 2025 North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 2025 edition of the North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival has come to a close. Lorraine Jordan, Allen Dyer, Edgar Loudermilk, and all of their
Orphan Train video – Trey Hensley, Rob Ickes, and Tammy Rogers
It's often been said that a good measure of the compassion of a society and a culture is how they deal with orphans, those abandoned as youngsters by their parents, or who find themselves homeless at the death of a
Banjo auction closing soon for Blue Ridge Banjo Camp
The banjo auction in support of the scholarship fund for Béla Fleck's Blue Ridge Banjo Camp closes in just two days, offering the opportunity to obtain one of four new banjos at a bargain price. Camp is in session this week
Tom and Jerry video from Andy Leftwich
Attention all you lovers of contest fiddle style. This is a good'n! Fiddler and mandolinist extraordinaire Andy Leftwich has reached back to his fiddlers convention days for this latest single, a Texas-sized version of the competition classic, Tom and Jerry. Many
Last Night video from the Asheville Mountain Boys
Western North Carolina new-traditionalists the Asheville Mountain Boys have created a music video for their current single, Last Night. It's a song written and sung by guitarist Marshall Brown, who says that they reached back to the 1950s for the styling
Hatcher family shares video response with Rockingham sheriff
A great many readers have been touched by the tragic events that transpired last weekend when the family home of country and bluegrass artist Spencer Hatcher was invaded by a knife-wielding assailant, which left his dad injured and his mom










