Australian Bluegrass News
Session Venue and the Good Folk Experience
Here is an opportunity to participate, have some fun, meet new people, learn new material at the Good Folk Experience in Queanbeyan ACT.
Great Alpine Pick Update
With the Great Alpine Pick set for this weekend organisers have some last minute reminders. This year's Great Alpine Pick will require you to follow current government guidelines and restrictions: Please have a mask with you at all times and don't be afraid to use it....
Tony Rice a Reflection by Pete Wernick
In bluegrass music history, a very few instrumentalists have defined for their instrument the paths that others have followed. Most of those paths had been set by 1970.
International News
Rick Faris Leaves Special Consensus
Rick Faris has announced his departure from IBMA award-winning Bluegrass group, Special Consensus. In the 11 years that Faris was a member of Special Consensus, the group toured in 19 different countries, recorded six records, shared two Grammy nominations and took...
VALE Jimmy Cox 1934 – 2021
We learned this week of the passing of Kentucky born master banjo maker Jimmy Cox aged 87.
Music Lessons Through Bluegrass Unlimited
Bluegrass Unlimited now features instructional content on their website.
New Releases
Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers – Hear Jerusalem Calling
Hear Jerusalem Calling is the first single from the album Somewhere Beyond the Blue, and comes from the legendary gospel group, Jerry & Tammy Sullivan.
Sunshine Song From Lindley Creek.
Bluegrass group Lindley Creek just unveiled the new video for their latest single, Sunshine Song. Lindley Creek's new track will serve as the final release from their debut Pinecastle Records album Freedom, Love, And The Open Road, which came out in mid-2020. Produced...
Smithsonian Folkways Releases Industrial Strength Bluegrass
Smithsonian Folkways Celebrates South West Ohio’s Golden Age with Forthcoming Album – Industrial Strength Bluegrass Album's Second Single Featuring Rhonda Vincent and Caleb Daugherty Releases Today - Family Reunion The second single, Family Reunion featuring the Queen...
IBMA News
A Place in the Band Conference – Women in Bluegrass
IBMA has announced several leadership bluegrass alum are involved in this Friday’s A Place in the Band Conference: Women in Bluegrass and American
Roots Music
Me and His Guitar, Tony Rice Tribute
Artistworks has presented a special online tribute to Tony Rice hosted by Bryan Sutton called Me and His Guitar.
National Arts Medal for Ricky Skaggs
A winner of 15 Grammy awards, Ricky Skaggs infuses his bluegrass and traditional country music roots into the contemporary Nashville sound – National Endowment for the Arts.
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