RockyGrass 2025 instrument contest winners Finn McGuiness (fiddle), Dave Pailet (mandolin), Andrew Gordon (reso-guitar), and G Korth-Rockwell (banjo and guitar) Each year at Planet Bluegrass' RockyGrass festival in Lyons, CO, competitions are held for individual players on the various bluegrass instruments,
This introduction to France's biggest bluegrass festival is a contribution from Swiss bluegrass writer and promoter Angelika Hernmarck. She will provide a daily report this week as the music rolls on. I'm packing my bags and bubbling with anticipation – Bluegrass
The cancellation of two popular Georgia bluegrass festivals has served as the impetus for the first annual RamblerFest, to be hosted by The Dixie Ramblers over Labor Day weekend at The Outpost in Waco, GA. Both the Armuchee Bluegrass Festival and the
Del McCoury at the 2025 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival - photo © Morgan Shortell While Tara Linhardt was finding unexpected treats at the side stages during the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival last week, New York photographer Morgan Shortell was shooting the
Golf carts roll by at the Marshall Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren Campers have been rolling into the Calhoun County Fairgrounds in Marshall, Michigan since Saturday, ahead of the 2025 Marshall Bluegrass Festival. Promoters Jeremie Cole and Alexus Ross
Daniel Carwile fiddles his way to first place at the 2025 Twin Lakes National Fiddler Championship Many thanks to Ed Carnes, Co-Chairman of the Twin Lakes Nation Fiddler Championship, for sharing this year's results, and some photos from their big day. The
The Po' Ramblin' Boys at Bluegrass on the Grass 2025 - photo © Frank Baker Herewith, a second and final gallery of Frank Baker's fine photos from Bluegrass on the Grass, a free, one-day bluegrass festival held on the campus of
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
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
Kaz Inaba at Kobe Shushinkan in Kobe, Japan (6/28/25) Leading Japanese bluegrass artist Kazuhiro Inaba shared some information, photos, and videos from a series of all star concerts he headlined last month in Japan, all in celebration of his 50th year
