Bristol, TN/VA -- The Appalachian Cultural Music Association will present the 18th Annual Leon Kiser Memorial-Tribute Concert on Saturday, February 22nd at the Foundation Event Facility in Bristol, Tennessee. Proceeds from the concert go to two scholarships at East Tennessee State University for their bluegrass, old time and country music program. The scholarships are the Benny Sims Scholarship and the ACMA Leon Kiser Memorial Scholarship. The concert will feature bluegrass, old-time, gospel and country bands performing.
Award winning banjo artist, instructor and historian Tony Trischka shared his tribute on Pete Seeger. We've been granted permission to carry that tribute here on Cybergrass. Tony writes...
I grew up with Pete’s banjo ringing in my ears. My parents were on the left side of things in the fifties and we listened to Weavers albums, Pete’s children’s records on Folkways, and Talking Union by the Almanac Singers.
Well my friends and fellow musicians, it’s that time of year again! For the sixth year in a row, the Chapel Hill American Legion Post 6 and VFW will host their annual fundraising event, The Marathon Jamm for charity! Show your support for our troops and their brave families! You and your instrument can make the world a better place! Play Music - Raise Money. Join the jam. The Marathon Jam is a 12-hour annual jam started in Chapel Hill, N.C. to raise funds for the Ft. Bragg Fisher House Foundation and to honor our military. Primarily of bluegrass music, the "Mostly Bluegrass" Marathon Jam takes place on Saturday Feb 22th 2014, with jams from across the United States and in Baghdad Iraq, Afghanistan and possibly Germany. This is the 6th consecutive year for the Marathon Jam. The Fisher House (www.fisherhouse.org) is an organization that supplies room and board to the families of soldiers recovering in VA hospitals away from their homes
The organizers of Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival are excited to announce the dates of the ninth annual festival. The magical weekend will take place Oct. 16-18, 2014 at the picturesque Mulberry Mountain near Ozark, Arkansas.
Junior Blankenship was raised where mountain bluegrass was a cornerstone to the family culture. Junior’s father, the late Hillard Blankenship, drove the tour bus for Dr. Ralph Stanley many years. Junior and his father formed a band called the Rocky Mountain Boys. Soon after that, Ralph Stanley called Junior and asked him to become a Clinch Mountain Boy after Keith Whitley left their group. Junior was only seventeen at the time. He stayed with Dr. Stanley until 1989. Saturday, February 1st, 2014, at 7:30 p.m., the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, wl present a concert of bluegrass music by the Junior Blankenship Band. Admission to the concert is $8 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. Due to recent weather, check the Carter Family Fold for possible cancellation of this performance.
Walnut Cove, NC -- From the hills of Virginia and the mill towns of North Carolina, and across the nation, Tony and Heather (Berry) Mabe are musical favorites in many venues and churches. Now, they have released a new album, Jesus Folk. It is their first project since leaving an award-winning career in bluegrass music to follow a call to Christian ministry.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's All for the Hall fundraiser will return to Los Angeles for the first time in nearly three years. The event, which will take place on Tuesday, March 4, at Club Nokia, will again follow a "guitar pull" format, featuring performances by Country Music Hall of Fame members Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Heart and Grammy Award-winning artist Jason Mraz. Acclaimed actress/singer/film producer Rita Wilson will host the event.
Boston, MA -- Bluegrass superstars Blue Highway kick off their 20th year as a working band with a brand-new album, The Game, and a headlining slot at the 29th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, New England’s premier wintertime roots music festival.
Wilkesboro, NC -- One of the more anticipated events at MerleFest – presented by Lowe’s and slated this year for April 24-27, 2014 – is the Midnight Jam, the Saturday after-hours hootenanny that has produced artistic collaborations and one-of-a-kind superstar jams that have become legendary in the festival’s history. This year the Midnight Jam will bear the stamp of The Bluegrass Situation, a popular hub for everything central to the modern roots community.
The Radio Ramblers are pleased to announce the release of an all-new live DVD! The band had a blast performing last March at the Centerville High School Performing Arts Center. From that performance, we recorded our first music video for "Some Kind Of War," which featured the Centerville Alternative Strings.
On February 3, Tony Trischka, widely regarded as the most innovative banjoist of his generation, will perform at Joe's Pub in NYC in support of his 17th solo album, Great Big World (February 4 / Rounder Records). His band will feature Michael Daves (guitar/vocals), Mike Barnett (fiddle), Jared Engel (bass) with guests Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Andy Statman (mandolin), Maeve Gilchrist (harp/vocals) and more.
Nashville (January 28, 2014) - Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the new single from Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie. Written by Sweet Dixie member and featured vocalist Chris Stifel, the single “Dancin' Annie” is also the title track of the upcoming Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie album scheduled for release on CD and digital formats on March 4th.
published by Bob Cherry on Tue, 01/28/2014 - 14:14
One of America's strongest folk heroes, Pete Seeger, passed away at New York Presbyterian Hospital while in his sleep last night at age 94. The often controversial activist, songwriter and performer shared his vision and professed his ideas of social change through the many folk songs and performances through decades of his life.
Nashville, TN -- Producers of the acclaimed PBS music concert event Bluegrass Underground today announced the series is proud recipient of four coveted Emmy awards from the 28th Annual Mid South Emmy Awards. The awards were announced by the National Academy for the Television Arts & Sciences January 26th at Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
Del McCoury was already hard at work in Baltimore’s lively bluegrass music scene when the very first Grammy awards were presented more than 50 years ago, but you couldn’t tell it from the way he bounded up the steps to thank the Grammy voters for honoring his Del McCoury Band’s The Streets of Baltimore at Sunday’s glittering awards show. The trophy marked the group’s second 21st century Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album (as well as Del’s 10th nomination total), and for the silver-haired McCoury, who turns 75 in just a few days, it’s an especially sweet one.
Bristol, TN/VA -- The Appalachian Cultural Music Association will present the 18th Annual Leon Kiser Memorial-Tribute Concert on Saturday, February 22nd at the Foundation Event Facility in Bristol, Tennessee. Proceeds from the concert go to two scholarships at East Tennessee State University for their bluegrass, old time and country music program. The scholarships are the Benny Sims Scholarship and the ACMA Leon Kiser Memorial Scholarship. The concert will feature bluegrass, old-time, gospel and country bands performing.
Award winning banjo artist, instructor and historian Tony Trischka shared his tribute on Pete Seeger. We've been granted permission to carry that tribute here on Cybergrass. Tony writes...
Well my friends and fellow musicians, it’s that time of year again! For the sixth year in a row, the Chapel Hill American Legion Post 6 and VFW will host their annual fundraising event, The Marathon Jamm for charity! Show your support for our troops and their brave families! You and your instrument can make the world a better place! Play Music - Raise Money. Join the jam. The Marathon Jam is a 12-hour annual jam started in Chapel Hill, N.C. to raise funds for the Ft. Bragg Fisher House Foundation and to honor our military. Primarily of bluegrass music, the "Mostly Bluegrass" 
The organizers of 
Junior Blankenship was raised where mountain bluegrass was a cornerstone to the family culture. Junior’s father, the late Hillard Blankenship, drove the tour bus for Dr. Ralph Stanley many years. Junior and his father formed a band called the Rocky Mountain Boys. Soon after that, Ralph Stanley called Junior and asked him to become a Clinch Mountain Boy after Keith Whitley left their group. Junior was only seventeen at the time. He stayed with Dr. Stanley until 1989. Saturday, February 1st, 2014, at 7:30 p.m., the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, wl present a concert of bluegrass music by the Junior Blankenship Band. Admission to the concert is $8 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. Due to recent weather, check the 
Walnut Cove, NC -- From the hills of Virginia and the mill towns of North Carolina, and across the nation, Tony and Heather (Berry) Mabe are musical favorites in many venues and churches. Now, they have released a new album, Jesus Folk. It is their first project since leaving an award-winning career in bluegrass music to follow a call to Christian ministry.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's All for the Hall fundraiser will return to Los Angeles for the first time in nearly three years. The event, which will take place on Tuesday, March 4, at Club Nokia, will again follow a "guitar pull" format, featuring performances by Country Music Hall of Fame members Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Heart and Grammy Award-winning artist Jason Mraz. Acclaimed actress/singer/film producer Rita Wilson will host the event.
Boston, MA -- Bluegrass superstars Blue Highway kick off their 20th year as a working band with a brand-new album, The Game, and a headlining slot at the 29th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, New England’s premier wintertime roots music festival.
Wilkesboro, NC -- One of the more anticipated events at MerleFest – presented by Lowe’s and slated this year for April 24-27, 2014 – is the Midnight Jam, the Saturday after-hours hootenanny that has produced artistic collaborations and one-of-a-kind superstar jams that have become legendary in the festival’s history. This year the Midnight Jam will bear the stamp of The Bluegrass Situation, a popular hub for everything central to the modern roots community.
The Radio Ramblers are pleased to announce the release of an all-new live DVD! The band had a blast performing last March at the Centerville High School Performing Arts Center. From that performance, we recorded our first music video for "Some Kind Of War," which featured the Centerville Alternative Strings.
On February 3, Tony Trischka, widely regarded as the most innovative banjoist of his generation, will perform at Joe's Pub in NYC in support of his 17th solo album, Great Big World (February 4 / Rounder Records). His band will feature Michael Daves (guitar/vocals), Mike Barnett (fiddle), Jared Engel (bass) with guests Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Andy Statman (mandolin), Maeve Gilchrist (harp/vocals) and more.
Nashville (January 28, 2014) - Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the new single from Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie. Written by Sweet Dixie member and featured vocalist Chris Stifel, the single “Dancin' Annie” is also the title track of the upcoming Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie album scheduled for release on CD and digital formats on March 4th.
One of America's strongest folk heroes, Pete Seeger, passed away at New York Presbyterian Hospital while in his sleep last night at age 94. The often controversial activist, songwriter and performer shared his vision and professed his ideas of social change through the many folk songs and performances through decades of his life.
Nashville, TN -- Producers of the acclaimed PBS music concert event Bluegrass Underground today announced the series is proud recipient of four coveted Emmy awards from the 28th Annual Mid South Emmy Awards. The awards were announced by the National Academy for the Television Arts & Sciences January 26th at Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
Del McCoury was already hard at work in Baltimore’s lively bluegrass music scene when the very first Grammy awards were presented more than 50 years ago, but you couldn’t tell it from the way he bounded up the steps to thank the Grammy voters for honoring his Del McCoury Band’s The Streets of Baltimore at Sunday’s glittering awards show. The trophy marked the group’s second 21st century Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album (as well as Del’s 10th nomination total), and for the silver-haired McCoury, who turns 75 in just a few days, it’s an especially sweet one.