Pepita Emmerichs has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Australian Bluegrass Scholarship.

The show was the band’s first performance since the Covid isolation and had the feel of a reunion, even though they hadn’t broken up. It was also the re-opening of the venue, a combination of three hundred-year-old clubs in a purpose-built club room, which had only been open for a month before the closures.

Midnight Skyracer has released their new album Shadows On the Moon on Island Records. The album was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Wiltshire UK, is a scintillating mix of hard-driven bluegrass and mountain balladry, both edgy and infectious, tender and tough.

The International Bluegrass Music Association has just announced that due to ongoing health concerns relating to COVID-19, and the logistical challenges of creating a safe in-person event experience, this year’s IBMA World of Bluegrass will take place virtually.

From just above the arctic circle in Bodø, Norway to sunny Turlock in Central California - despite growing up in different cultures with an ocean...

Lifted from her acclaimed album No Headlights, Kristy Cox’s new single,
Finger Picking Good features Australian super star and two-time Grammy Award nominee, Tommy Emmanuel.