Preserving The Tradition of Bluegrass Into The Future

Food often comes from the heart. Sure, it fills bellies and nourishes bodies. But it also creates comfort and peace beyond physical needs...

Most people don’t associate the state of Maine with bluegrass music. For Cliff Gelina of Breakin’ Strings, however, New England seems the...

By day, he’s Keith Billik, Esq., an attorney quietly practicing his profession in suburban Detroit. Off the clock, he’s Keith Billik, the...

It could be claimed without any exaggeration whatsoever that singer, songwriter and musician has always had bluegrass in his blood. It...

The Tuesday Mountain Boys didn’t set out to form a band. What started as a regular Tuesday night porch jam session at Brian Duffy’s...

Finland isn’t often connected to American folk genres, but according to Finnish musician Jussi Syren, bluegrass is alive and well in his...

Bob Free pauses, raises his camera, and then snaps a picture of the artists on stage at the California Bluegrass Association’s Grass...

Appalachia is known for beans & cornbread, biscuits & gravy, and chicken & dumplings. But, the region’s food diversity spreads far beyond...

For many in the bluegrass community, their first introduction to Wyatt Ellis was when he stepped onto the stage at the IBMA Awards Show...

He is a musician. A singer. A songwriter. A storyteller. An actor. A club owner. Ed Snodderly has many talents and, by all accounts, uses...

Grammy Award-nominated group The Special Consensus has toured in Canada, and many of their fans hail from up north. When deciding on a...

Brad Reid has something to say, and the fiddle is the instrument he feels he can best express it. The fiddle is a family tradition for...

When singer/songwriter James House thinks about the influences that led to his success, he remembers growing up on a ranch in Bly,...

Nashville-based alt-folk/bluegrass trio The Arcadian Wild has received over 50 million Spotify streams from over 325,000 monthly...

The Mountain Grass Unit is on the move. Composed of a trio of college students, they’re eager to deliver their own interpretation of...

As a child growing up in Alabama, Lebron Batey was surrounded by music. “My mom was in a Gospel group, and I traveled with them as a...

D’Addario, known for its superior musical strings, has a reputation that dates back literally hundreds of years to a different continent....

When Becca Bisque and Julie Gussaroff met at a music party in Colorado, it was the beginning of what is now a powerhouse string band....

Justin Grizzle fell into the music business naturally. “I married the boss’s eldest daughter,” he laughs. Gold Tone Music Group was...

High atop Juniper Ridge, just outside Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Fred Lopez reflects on the amazing life he has lived. He shares a home with...

Pixie and the Partygrass Boys – hailing from the Wasatch region of Utah – have made great strides since The Bluegrass Standard last...

With a title that hints at collective disgruntlement – “Nation of Sorrow” – multi-instrumentalist, Rachel Baiman has brought an...

Mike Sanyshyn and Tianna Lefebvre both grew up surrounded by music. Tianna actually had her first recording session when she was just...

Appalachian culture relies heavily on storytelling and sharing stories through oral traditions. Much like bluegrass music, those stories...