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Peter Rowan at MerleFest 2025 - photo © Bryce LaFoon Bryce LaFoon with Lightshifter Studio has shared a great many photos from this past weekend at MerleFest 2025, held annually in Wilkesboro, NC in memory of Doc Watson's son, Merle. It

The 2014 autobiography of Ozark fiddle legend and long-time Silver Dollar City performer Violet Hensley, Whittlin' and Fiddlin' My Own Way: The Violet Hensley Story, has been formatted for digital release, and will be available April 30 on the Kindle

Woody Platt and Darren Shumaker at MerleFest 2025 - photo © Bryce Lafoon Bryce LaFoon is at MerleFest grabbing photos from the stage, and has shared this first batch. We'll have more of his images next week.

Billy Blue Records has put together a very nice music video for their current single with Bob Minner, a new arrangement of The Osborne Brothers classic, Listening To The Rain. Bob is generally known as a guitarist and songwriter, but his

The Wilkes Acoustic Folk Society has been involved with MerleFest since 2001, when the newly formed music club was invited by the festival committee to host the Pickin' Place (jamming tents) at MerleFest. It is a venue in itself. The

Mountain Home Music has released an animated video for their current single from Nashville singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ashby Frank. It's his cut of The Bug, a song that goes back almost 35 years to British rocker Mark Knopfler. A native

New Jersey's Magnolia Street String Band has utilized their proximity to New York City in their latest music video, which juxtaposes the hectic activity in Times Square with the children's song, Slow Down Rabbit. The band consists of Sheila Vee on

Today Curb Records has released Cherokee Pioneer, the debut album from Pitney Meyer. The album is notable in several ways, not least the fact that a mostly-original, solidly-bluegrass project is out on a major Nashville label, with a full promotional effort

One thing that fiddle player Betsy Heron, banjo player Gretchen Bowder, guitar player Whitney Roy, and bass player Kindsay Lassonde have in common, is their love of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard's music, as well as a mutual respect for

As part of their annual fundraising drive, the hosts of Music From the True Vine on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, OR, organize a non-stop, eight-hour bluegrass marathon of local bands, each performing a half-hour set, in what has become