Saturday, November 19

Western North Carolina has produced some of the best bluegrass musicians on earth. Count mandolin phenom, Nick Chandler, among them. He and his band, Delivered, play it the way fans of traditional bluegrass like to hear it … hard-driving and straight from the heart.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Prairie Wildfire, formed in 2015, is an all-female band from Buffalo, Wyoming, offering a blend of bluegrass, country, and gospel. With vocalist Sage Palser on mandolin, vocalist Morgan Blaney on bass, and vocalist Tessa Taylor on banjo, these dynamos have honed their harmonies, filled out their sound with original instrumentation, and written many of their own tunes.

As mentioned in part one, The Origins of Bluegrass Music: A True-grass History, Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys were still, more or less, just a good ole’ hillbilly string band when they joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1939. At the time, they had not yet a...

With a style all their own, Mountain Highway® is an authentic young family band steeped in traditional bluegrass and gospel music originally made famous by icons like Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and Ralph Stanley. The band is comprised of four sibling singers who play banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, and their father playing upright bass. The group is often heralded for its tight family harmony.

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Harbourtown has been pleasing audiences since the early 1970s and wowing crowds throughout the Midwest and beyond.  With heartfelt ballads to foot-stomping banjo tunes, the band has taken their own blend of traditional, contemporary, and original bluegrass to some of the best festivals in the country. 

Like biscuits and fried chicken on Sunday afternoon, there were magical moments in the origins of bluegrass music, when two great things came together. A Fateful NightSuch was the occasion when sometime around 1926 or ’27, a teenager named Bill Monro...

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Caroline Owens is a multi-instrumentalist, award-winning singer, songwriter from Denton, North Carolina, and has quickly made quite a name for herself within the bluegrass community. Her amazing voice has won her invitations to perform alongside many of her heroes such as Alison Krauss, The Isaacs, Suzanne Cox, Larry Gatlin, Darin and Brooke Aldridge, and Lorraine Jordan.