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
IBMA's Leadership Bluegrass has scheduled a free webinar for December 4, a panel discussion on using online music streaming as an income source. Titled From the Table to the DSPs and Back Again: How To Make Money Without Selling Recordings,
Bluegrass artist Luke Shamblin has chosen a Hazel Dickens classic, Hills of Home, for his latest single, as a personal tribute in this 100th anniversary year of her birth. Like Hazel, he is a West Virginia native, now living in
Have you written the next great Christmas song? The people with the USA Songwriting Competition are running their 10th annual Christmas Songwriting Competition this month. Through December 23, original songs may be entered for a $35 fee, with $1,000 worth of merchandise
Bonfire Music Group has a new single for South Carolina singer/songwriter Andrew Crawford, one that takes a look at a tragic and bloody event that took place about a hundred years ago in his home state. The song is called The
Ricky Skaggs opens the Opry 100th anniversary show - © Grand Ole Opry, photos by Rachael Black On Friday, November 28, the Grand Ole Opry celebrated the 100th anniversary of their first live radio broadcast with two shows, featuring 25 different
Here's a Christmas offering from Dear Maribella & the Pigkickers, the Trakimowicz siblings from Hampstead, NC, who have made a mark of late with their family bluegrass sound. They have created a grassy arrangement of the holiday classic Silver Bells,
Engelhardt Music Group has released another single from big bad banjo man Russ Carson, he of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and the popular YouTube and Instagram profiles 81Crowe, where he is well known as both a banjo instructor and
The current, and 47th, season of the hit PBS program, This Old House, has come to western North Carolina to be part of the restoration of the region following the flooding from Hurricane Helene. This long-running show, which has made
Mountain Fever Records has dropped a debut single from their upcoming album for Colin & Kathleen Ray, the young husband-and-wife singing team that is recently signed to the label. The couple met cute while studying in the Bluegrass, Old Time &
