Events

The Gibson Brothers with Mike Barber at The Analog - photo © Allen Clark On February 18, The Gibson Brothers appeared at The Analog, a unique and intimate listening room situated in The Hutton Hotel in Nashville. They brought along longtime

Wyatt Ellis on The Opry with Daily & Vincent - photo by Eric Ahlgrim At age 13, Wyatt Ellis has already checked the top item off his bucket list, performing before a live audience at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,

This report on the 2023 Midwinter Bluegrass Festival is a contribution from Kevin Slick, President of the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society. The Midwinter Bluegrass Festival, a Colorado tradition since 1986, returned this past weekend in Northglenn, CO. Between COVID shut-downs and festival

Sad news for bluegrass lovers in upstate New York. The 2023 Tug Hill Bluegrass Festival in Lowville, NY has been cancelled, and the status of the event going forward is uncertain. For the past 15 years, the festival has been held

Once again promoter, Jeff Branch, is bringing bluegrass to Oakboro, NC for the Big Lick Bluegrass Festival. The festival park is under new ownership, and renovations are ongoing to enhance the outdoor venue.  Branch says, "Things are improving with new ownership

Cody Johnson, SPBGMA's newly-named Promoter of the Year, is adding a new festival to honor the legendary Tony Rice, at Camp Springs Blue Grass Park in North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend.  Johnson said, "We are excited to announce that we

The Oldtone Roots Music Festival, held this past eight years in North Hillsdale, NY, has announced that the festival has come to an end. Their web site has been reconfigured to show nothing but an opening page with the following text: With

The venerable MerleFest, held in April each year in Wilkesboro, NC, is set to celebrate two meaningful anniversaries at the 2023 festival. First off, this will be the 35th annual MerleFest, and this year marks what would have been the

Prague-based banjo and mandolin builder, Rosťa Čapek, is having a double celebration in the spring -  his 55th birthday, and the fifth wedding anniversary of what his wife, Iva, describes as "our Big Bluegrass Wedding." To mark these occasions, he

In the wake of the school shut downs due to the COVID 19 outbreak, three central North Carolina fiddlers' conventions held in school buildings are finally returning this spring, with a few changes.  Star Fiddlers' Convention will resume for its 96th