Latest NewsRaleigh Convention Center catches fireRaleigh 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 will have happy memories of time spent here over theRead More Leadership Bluegrass webinar on streaming as a source of income 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, it will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. easternRead More Hills of Home from Luke Shamblin 🐇每一次弹射、每一次超越，都可能为您带来丰厚大奖。无需等待，实时参与，在观看弹珠赛车的同时，享受中奖的无限乐趣。🐇快来加入联盟，开启您的激情中奖之旅！ 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 North Carolina. The song is a heartfelt tribute to home, bothRead More Enter the Christmas Songwriting Competition 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 offered as the first prize. Plus, the top 15 finalists'Read More The Millworker’s Wage from Andrew Crawford 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 Millworker's Wage, and it tells the story of a timeRead More Opry celebrates 100th anniversary of first broadcastRicky 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 Opry members to commemorate the centennial. 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Raleigh Convention Center catches fireRaleigh 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 will have happy memories of time spent here over theRead More
Leadership Bluegrass webinar on streaming as a source of income 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, it will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. easternRead More
Hills of Home from Luke Shamblin 🐇每一次弹射、每一次超越，都可能为您带来丰厚大奖。无需等待，实时参与，在观看弹珠赛车的同时，享受中奖的无限乐趣。🐇快来加入联盟，开启您的激情中奖之旅！ 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 North Carolina. The song is a heartfelt tribute to home, bothRead More
Enter the Christmas Songwriting Competition 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 offered as the first prize. Plus, the top 15 finalists'Read More
The Millworker’s Wage from Andrew Crawford 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 Millworker's Wage, and it tells the story of a timeRead More
Opry celebrates 100th anniversary of first broadcastRicky 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 Opry members to commemorate the centennial. Needless to say, none ofRead More
Silver Bells video from Dear Maribella & the Pigkickers 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...
ETIGBA – Estación 39 Estación 39 is an ideal example of a band that hails from environs well outside US borders, but still stays true to those musical traditions...
Look Me Up By The Ocean Door from Russ Carson, featuring Ron Block Engelhardt Music Group has released another single from big bad banjo man Russ Carson, he of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and the popular YouTube...
Please Come Home for Christmas – The Brothers Young The Brothers Young, teen grassers out of Roanoke, Virginia, have released their new bluegrass Christmas album, and it holds treasures you will want to add...
Bluegrass comes to This Old House for Carolina Comeback 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...
Somewhere Among the Briars from Colin & Kathleen Ray 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...
