Once again the mid-summer bluegrass season got a big boost this morning as the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the nominees for their 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards in a press conference at the Nashville studios of SiriusXM. The event
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Bluegrass on the Grass at Dickinson College
Five Mile Mountain Road at the 2025 Bluegrass on the Grass - photo © Frank Baker Frank Baker made his regular stop last weekend at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA for their one-day, free bluegrass festival, Bluegrass on the Grass, on
11 year old Stuart Duncan interviewed by Wayne Rice
Many thanks to our friend Wayne Rice for sharing this interview he did in 1976 with a pre-teen Stuart Duncan. A number of southern California bluegrass legends turn up on this recording Wayne made of one of his first editions of
Alone Again video from Colebrook Road
Pennsylvania's Colebrook Road has a music video for their current Mountain Fever Records single, Alone Again. The stark black & white video nicely captures the somber mood of the song, written by guitarist/vocalist Jesse Eisenbise, drawing on some of the darker
Bluegrass Canada: Carlisle Bluegrass Festival 50 years on
Ralph Stanley and Keith Whitley with the Clinch Mountains Boysat the 1976 Bluegrass Canada Festival in Carlisle, ON - photo © Mike Higgins Thanks to Mike Higgins with Bluegrass Canada, the magazine of the Bluegrass Music Association of Canada, for this
Molly Tuttle on CBS Saturday Morning
Anthony Mason with CBS television has been on a bluegrass roll of late, producing a delightful interview with Alison Krauss that ran on July 10 on CBS Mornings, and another with Molly Tuttle for CBS Saturday Morning's Saturday Session. The segment
Firehawk live video from Williamson Branch
To celebrate today's release of their new album, Southern Sunshine, our friends Williamson Branch have created a live firehouse video of one of the tracks, Firehawk, just for our readers. It's a rockin' fiddle tune written by Branch fiddler Melody Williamson
Alison Krauss & Union Station on CBS Mornings
Earlier today, CBS Mornings aired the Alison Krauss interview they recorded this spring with show correspondent Anthony Mason. While the band was rehearsing for this summer's tour in Nashville, Mason visited them in the studio to capture conversations with Alison,
Not That Bad video from Rrinaco
Rebel Records has a new video today for Rrinaco, the alter-ego of sorts for Corrina Rose Logston Stephens of High Fidelity. Corrina launched this effort as a home for the songs she wrote that wouldn't fit in High Fidelity, a dedicated
Photos from the 50th anniversary Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley
Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee at the 2025 Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - photo © Robin Frenette Many thanks to the good folks with the California Bluegrass Association for sharing this gallery of photos from the 50th anniversary edition of their










