Tag : bluegrass

DONT MISS SHOWS

Mike Mitchell Band @ Station Inn on April 16

Nancy Posey
Virginia fiddler and vocalist Mike Mitchell will appear with the Mike Mitchell Band at Nashville’s historic Station Inn on Thursday, April 16, at 9 pm. The band will be playing from their upcoming album Love Songs, Torch & Bluegrass, to be released May 8 on Mountain Fever Records. Mitchell, who......
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW

Shawn Camp Returns to Nashville’s Station Inn

Nancy Posey
There is a certain symmetry to Shawn Camp playing Nashville’s historic Station Inn, where he recorded a live album in 2004. Some of the tracks from that album made the set list this week as wellβ€””Travelin’ Teardrop Blues” and β€œMy Love Will Not Change,” as well as three also included......
INTERVIEWS Uncategorized

CMHOF&M Nashville Cats Program Honors Jerry Douglas

Liz Ferrell
Jerry Douglas has long been one of Nashville’s most innovative and revered musicians. Driven by his love for the resonator guitar and a steely determination to master it and make it do the unexpected, Douglas has, over a career spanning over 50 years and counting, taken the dobro to musical......
FESTIVALS

Scruggs Fest Announces 2026 Line-up

Nancy Posey
While addressing the 2026 Leadership Bluegrass class at Nashville’s CMA offices on T Tuesday, Claire Armbruster of Planning Stages Inc. alerted the participants of the pending announcement of the lineup for the Earl Scruggs Music Festival, to be held Labor Day Weekend (September 4–6) at the Tryon International Equestrian Center......
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW

Leftover Salmon with Jason Carter @ Nashville’s Basement East

Nancy Posey
What happened at the Basement East on Thursday night, May 8, may not be unique in Nashville. Local music lovers may be spoiled: we go to a show to see one band and thenβ€”voila! Look who else shows up to perform! Leftover Salmon’s Let’s Party about It album release was......
ALBUM REVIEWS

Pitney Meyer Embraces Bluegrass Tradition with Release of ‘Cherokee Pioneer’

Nancy Posey
When Mo Pitney and John Meyer set out to record Cherokee Pioneer, their first full-length album as Pitney Meyer, they established themselves firmly within the bluegrass realm. From the opening track, β€œBanjo Picker (in a Bluegrass Band),” they bring together the lyrical imagery and the traditional instrumentation associated with the......
NEWS

“Availability” Released as Second Single from Vol. 2 of Hartford Project

Nancy Posey
If one’s life is measured by what is left behind, the legacy of the late musical icon John Hartford continues to grow exponentially. The discovery by his daughter Katie Harford Hogue of notebooks full of handwritten original fiddle tunes led first to a book collecting some of his unrecorded tunes,......
NEWS

Rick Faris’ New Single Advises “Bend, Don’t Break”

Nancy Posey
With the release of β€œBend, Don’t Break,” Rick Faris brings in a slate of bluegrass talent to back him on the first single from his upcoming album due for release in June. Recognized as the IBMA New Artist of the Year, Faris has racked up a total of 8 IBMA......
NEWS

SPBGMA Celebrates Fifty Years of Bluegrass

Nancy Posey
The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in American is a mouthful; most folks just call it SPBGMA (pronounced SPIG-ma). January 23–26 marked the 50th anniversary of the annual convention, held at the Music City Sheraton in Nashville. All it takes to immerse oneself in the experience is walking......