Today, Dec. 17, Steve Martin and the board of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced the 2024 recipients of their prestigious bluegrass awards. In keeping with its custom since 2021, the 14-year organization founded […]
As a songwriting student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the mid-2010s, Amy Allen had a teacher whose ideas about lyrics included the conviction that words must not be improperly stressed. Among the instructor’s […]
Photo: Samantha Muljat Molly Tuttle has released her latest batch of new music, the six-song EP, Into the Wild. Today’s release follows the musician’s Grammy-award-winning and critically acclaimed collection, City of Gold, delivered in July […]
via Gary Jared / courtesy of Del McCoury / DelFest “Hold on a second!” Del McCoury interjects with a chuckle, pausing our conversation to reminisce about a pivotal moment in his early career. I had […]
via Gary Jared / courtesy of Del McCoury / DelFest Across his six decades of making classic albums, Del McCoury knows what he’s looking for in a song. “I like a challenge. I’ve always liked […]
Ah, the internet, our modern source for good news and bad news, pleasure and pain, buying things and researching loans because we bought too many things. But with how quickly and widely it’s expanded, multiplied […]
Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey Exhibition at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, Ky., has detailed its opening weekend festivities, intended to take place over three days, beginning on March 28, […]
Dramatic new video shows wreckage from the fatal crash that killed Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks, in a head-on car crash in Texas. The 65-year-old musician died instantly when her Ford […]
Laura Lynch, a co-founding member of Dixie Chicks, was killed in a head-on crash in El Paso, Texas on Friday (December 22nd). She was 65 years old. In a statement, The Chicks said, “We are […]
Before the banjo, the instrument at the heart of so much folk, country and bluegrass music, was the ekonting: a self-built, three-string gourd instrument with a muted but characterful tone, played by the Jola people […]
While Molly Tuttle has technically been part of the bluegrass scene since 2006, the 29-year-old reached new heights in 2022, netting two nominations at the 2023 Grammys: Best New Artist and Best Bluegrass Album. This […]
Photo by Jeff Fasano Seminal bluegrass mandolinist Sam Bush is set to pay tribute to his collaborator, longtime friend and mentor John Hartford for his first release since 2016, Radio John: Songs of John Hartford, […]
What is Edie Brickell’s net worth? Edie Brickell is an American singer/songwriter who has a net worth of $50 million. Edie Brickell rose to fame as the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative rock […]