Raleigh Convention Center roof on fire (12/1/25) - photo from Raleigh Professional Fire Fighters The Raleigh Convention Center, home to IBMA's World of Bluegrass convention from 2013 through 2024, caught fire last night, resulting in a 2-alarm fire call downtown. Many readers
Samantha and Josh Berry on their wedding day (11/22/25) - photo © Shelby Lynn Photography Samantha Snyder, former fiddler and vocalist with Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Josh Berry, former bass player with Appalachian Road Show, were married this past weekend
Evan Dickerson and The Carl Bentley Band We written several times here about Evan Dickerson, a young man from Ohio with a passion and love for bluegrass music as big as the world is wide. A regular at most of the
Caleb Shifflett, former guitarist with Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys, and Reagan Hagy, whose family runs the Bristol Bluegrass Spring Fest in Bristol, VA, were married on November 15. The wedding was held at the Middle Fork
D'Addario has introduced a new product that could prove useful and valuable to acoustic and bluegrass performers, especially those who work on stage without a sound engineer. Their IR Mic Mute is a noise gate/muting attachment that mounts easily between any
Chris Jones, peripatetic world traveler, radio host, and regular columnist here at Bluegrass Today, has been on tour in Europe with Paolo Ercoli this past few weeks, set to return home at the end of this one. But it seems that
To celebrate their founding in 1975, Deering Banjos has created a highly ornate, 50th Anniversary Limited Edition model banjo. It's a strikingly beautiful instrument, made of high-grade curly maple with a bound ebony fingerboard and delicate, intricate fretboard inlays. Of course
For her birthday this month, perennial bluegrass hitmaker Irene Kelley thought that a bike ride through Cade's Cove in east Tennessee sounded like a perfect day out. Lovely fall scenery, and a near certainty of encountering deer in quantity, was
Rick Faris, Shawn Horn, and Horn #1 - photo © Kylee Jones At the children's tent during the 2025 Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival, The Horn Family, Edmond, OK bluegrass band, were entertaining about 100 children from local schools, when Shawn Horn
One of the best things about small town America, and something well worth preserving, is the quaint downtowns or city centers that still exist in small communities all across the country. Even when big box stores and online retailers have
