Donna Ulisse and her band The Poor Mountain Boys will perform a limited number of Christmas shows this year featuring the music from her landmark song cycle All The Way To Bethlehem which was released in 2012.
Nashville, TN -- To honor the memory of a Bluegrass Hall of Fame icon, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will present an interview with music industry veteran Kay Clary at the seventh annual Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at 6 p.m. in the Ford Theater. A reception will follow the program.
Bristol, TN/VA -- Despite getting .6 inches of rain on the music festival's biggest day, Birthplace of Country Music®, the parent organization of Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, reports a 10% increase in attendance from their 2012 event. More than 55,000 visitors, artists, vendors, and volunteers converged onto Historic Downtown Bristol, VA/TN for the annual, three-day festival. Visitors from 45 states and 4 foreign countries were represented. Folks from as far away as the U.K., Scotland, Australia, the Middle East, and South America watched the event's live stream from their computers.
Mountain Fever Records is proud to announce the new bluegrass single release, “Pike County Jail” written and performed by Dave Adkins. The song was co-produced by Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk and mixed by Aaron Ramsey of Mountain Heart, and Mountain Fever Studios, and mastered by Brandon Hodges of Dead Oak Mastering. "Pike County Jail" is the first single from Adkins upcoming solo album, Nothin to Lose releasing early 2014.
Lou Reid & Carolina are celebrating the holiday season with a digital single release of Christmas in the Blue Ridge. The band says, "Excited to present our first Christmas song! Christmas in the Blue Ridge is now available for download! Happy Holidays from Lou Reid and Carolina! The song features
Lou, Christy, Trevor and Skip..along with Ron Stewart on fiddle." The song is available for purchase at loureidandcarolina.com and available to radio programmers at AirPlayDirect.com. "Christmas in the Blue Ridge" was written by Lou and Terry Foust. The song is performed by band members Lou Reid (lead vocal, mandolin), Christy Reid (vocal, bass); Skip Cherryholmes (guitar, vocal); Trevor Watson (banjo) with guest Ron Stewart (fiddle).
The Irish Godfather of Bluegrass Music, Niall Toner, continues to entertain and perform between two continents. Music from the Blackstairs Mountains of Ireland blend the Irish flavor and American bluegrass into the Niall Toner sound. A serious follower of the Bill Monroe style of mandolin, the award winning artist will be performing at next year's MerleFest. Toner has released a new video from his Onwards and Upwards album released last year.
BlueTrain will be performing at The Williamsburg Inn located at 11131 Pulaski Hwy, White Marsh, MD 21162 on Sat, Nov. 23, 2013. Show admission is FREE and the Show time is 8:00 pm - 12:00 midnight. BlueTrain is a relatively new band that just did come out ... but yet, not actually. Each member of the band has a history of working with some of the best bluegrass musicians in the DC, VA, MD, PA area. More fascinating is that they don't seem to have hit their stride as of yet, only being a unit for a very short time and even fewer rehearsals ... they still do not have a website as of yet. To the band's credit, the core of this ensemble has previously performed together for an extended amount of time in a different configuration and has aided in the configuration to gel more quickly.
Nashville, TN -- Katie Armiger, Brent Cobb, Chris Janson and Corey Smith, four rising singer-songwriters who have been selected to participate in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s emerging artist membership program, will take the Ford Theater stage on Tuesday, December 10, at 7:30 p.m. for an acoustic guitar pull. All proceeds from the concert will benefit the museum.
Trinity Music Productions is proud to present The American Story Tellers - Tim Grimm and Antsy McClain in concert as part of the Acoustic Guitar Masters Concert Series 14. Join Tim and Antsy at the Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center in Elizabethtown, KY, December 7, 2013 Show time is 7:30 pm EST. Tickets are $15.00 each. For more information visit www.acousticguitarmasters.com
The Northern Bluegrass Committee produces the Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards. The nominations have been announced for the 35th Annual Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards which will take place Saturday, November 23rd at the Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka, Ontario. The awards are part of a bigger celebration. The three day event from November 22-24 includes a lot of activities besides the awards including jam sessions, vendors, daily performances from some outstanding bands. Workshops are also available for attendees.
The free annual Lloyd Loar’s Hometown Bluegrass Festival to be held at Marigold Meadows 1212 N. Cedar Street in Lewistown, Illinois June 27-29, 2014 is on. Why Lloyd Loar? Lloyd Loar's parents moved to Lewistown, IL in 1889 when Lloyd was three years old. Lloyd attended Lewistown High School from 1899 to 1903 and began performing in local music programs. Loar went on to study harmony, music theory, orchestration and piano. According to various documents*, Loar returned to his hometown later in life and established an Acoustical Research Laboratory. While Bill Monroe may have been “The Father of Bluegrass", the sound we associate with Monroe’s mandolin came from Lloyd Loar.
Great Mills, MD -- Jay Armsworthy, promoter and creater for Bluegrass for Hospice writes about the big success for this year's event. "On Saturday October 26, 2013 was the 5th year for the Bluegrass for Hospice. It’s a one day Bluegrass music event where all proceeds went toward the Hospice House. The event took in $29,181.68 this year. In 5 years, Bluegrass for Hospice has raised $97,315.00 for the Hospice House. This finally makes this event one of the biggest fundraisers for the Hospice of St. Mary’s."
Nashville, TN - November 15, 2013 - The Americana Music Association has announced it will move its conference headquarters to Nashville’s premier boutique hotel, the Hutton Hotel, for the 15th Annual Festival & Conference to be held September 17-21, 2014. Registrations for Music City’s most comprehensive industry conference will go on sale Friday November 15, 2013 at special early bird / discounted rates.
Nashville, TN – The highly anticipated 8th album from The Grascals will be released on Tuesday, Nov. 19th. When I Get My Pay, from Mountain Home Music, is currently available for pre-order on iTunes. When I Get My Pay includes "American Pickers" video featured earlier on Cybergrass and is below.
Nashville, TN --- In the wake of winning Album of the Year at the IBMA awards, Balsam Range’s banjo player Marc Pruett paused at a table backstage which held the plaques for Hall of Fame inductees Tony Rice and Paul Warren. Gently touching the plaque for Warren, Pruett was overhead saying simply, “Aw, I miss him. He was my friend.”
Donna Ulisse and her band The Poor Mountain Boys will perform a limited number of Christmas shows this year featuring the music from her landmark song cycle All The Way To Bethlehem which was released in 2012.
Nashville, TN -- To honor the memory of a Bluegrass Hall of Fame icon, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will present an interview with music industry veteran Kay Clary at the seventh annual Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at 6 p.m. in the Ford Theater. A reception will follow the program.
Bristol, TN/VA -- Despite getting .6 inches of rain on the music festival's biggest day, Birthplace of Country Music®, the parent organization of Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, reports a 10% increase in attendance from their 2012 event. More than 55,000 visitors, artists, vendors, and volunteers converged onto Historic Downtown Bristol, VA/TN for the annual, three-day festival. Visitors from 45 states and 4 foreign countries were represented. Folks from as far away as the U.K., Scotland, Australia, the Middle East, and South America watched the event's live stream from their computers.
Mountain Fever Records is proud to announce the new bluegrass single release, “Pike County Jail” written and performed by Dave Adkins. The song was co-produced by Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk and mixed by Aaron Ramsey of Mountain Heart, and Mountain Fever Studios, and mastered by Brandon Hodges of Dead Oak Mastering. "Pike County Jail" is the first single from Adkins upcoming solo album, Nothin to Lose releasing early 2014.
Lou Reid & Carolina are celebrating the holiday season with a digital single release of Christmas in the Blue Ridge. The band says, "Excited to present our first Christmas song! Christmas in the Blue Ridge is now available for download! Happy Holidays from Lou Reid and Carolina! The song features
The Irish Godfather of Bluegrass Music, Niall Toner, continues to entertain and perform between two continents. Music from the Blackstairs Mountains of Ireland blend the Irish flavor and American bluegrass into the Niall Toner sound. A serious follower of the Bill Monroe style of mandolin, the award winning artist will be performing at next year's MerleFest. Toner has released a new video from his Onwards and Upwards album released last year.
BlueTrain will be performing at The Williamsburg Inn located at 11131 Pulaski Hwy, White Marsh, MD 21162 on Sat, Nov. 23, 2013. Show admission is FREE and the Show time is 8:00 pm - 12:00 midnight. BlueTrain is a relatively new band that just did come out ... but yet, not actually. Each member of the band has a history of working with some of the best bluegrass musicians in the DC, VA, MD, PA area. More fascinating is that they don't seem to have hit their stride as of yet, only being a unit for a very short time and even fewer rehearsals ... they still do not have a website as of yet. To the band's credit, the core of this ensemble has previously performed together for an extended amount of time in a different configuration and has aided in the configuration to gel more quickly.
Nashville, TN -- Katie Armiger, Brent Cobb, Chris Janson and Corey Smith, four rising singer-songwriters who have been selected to participate in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s emerging artist membership program, will take the Ford Theater stage on Tuesday, December 10, at 7:30 p.m. for an acoustic guitar pull. All proceeds from the concert will benefit the museum.
Trinity Music Productions is proud to present The American Story Tellers - Tim Grimm and Antsy McClain in concert as part of the Acoustic Guitar Masters Concert Series 14. Join Tim and Antsy at the Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center in Elizabethtown, KY, December 7, 2013 Show time is 7:30 pm EST. Tickets are $15.00 each. For more information visit 
The Northern Bluegrass Committee produces the Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards. The nominations have been announced for the 35th Annual Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards which will take place Saturday, November 23rd at the Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka, Ontario. The awards are part of a bigger celebration. The three day event from November 22-24 includes a lot of activities besides the awards including jam sessions, vendors, daily performances from some outstanding bands. Workshops are also available for attendees.
The free annual Lloyd Loar’s Hometown Bluegrass Festival to be held at Marigold Meadows 1212 N. Cedar Street in Lewistown, Illinois June 27-29, 2014 is on. Why Lloyd Loar? Lloyd Loar's parents moved to Lewistown, IL in 1889 when Lloyd was three years old. Lloyd attended Lewistown High School from 1899 to 1903 and began performing in local music programs. Loar went on to study harmony, music theory, orchestration and piano. According to various documents*, Loar returned to his hometown later in life and established an Acoustical Research Laboratory. While Bill Monroe may have been “The Father of Bluegrass", the sound we associate with Monroe’s mandolin came from Lloyd Loar.
Great Mills, MD -- Jay Armsworthy, promoter and creater for Bluegrass for Hospice writes about the big success for this year's event. "On Saturday October 26, 2013 was the 5th year for the Bluegrass for Hospice. It’s a one day Bluegrass music event where all proceeds went toward the Hospice House. The event took in $29,181.68 this year. In 5 years, Bluegrass for Hospice has raised $97,315.00 for the Hospice House. This finally makes this event one of the biggest fundraisers for the Hospice of St. Mary’s."
Nashville, TN - November 15, 2013 - The Americana Music Association has announced it will move its conference headquarters to Nashville’s premier boutique hotel, the Hutton Hotel, for the 15th Annual Festival & Conference to be held September 17-21, 2014. Registrations for Music City’s most comprehensive industry conference will go on sale Friday November 15, 2013 at special early bird / discounted rates.
Nashville, TN – The highly anticipated 8th album from The Grascals will be released on Tuesday, Nov. 19th. When I Get My Pay, from Mountain Home Music, is currently available for pre-order on 
Nashville, TN --- In the wake of winning Album of the Year at the IBMA awards, Balsam Range’s banjo player Marc Pruett paused at a table backstage which held the plaques for Hall of Fame inductees Tony Rice and Paul Warren. Gently touching the plaque for Warren, Pruett was overhead saying simply, “Aw, I miss him. He was my friend.”