<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Bluegrass Standard]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bluegrass Standard is an online magazine for Bluegrass fans everywhere to enjoy! Follow your favorite artists or discover new ones.]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/appalachiafoodies</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:43:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/es/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Wee Hours On The Wee Farm]]></title><description><![CDATA[3:00 a.m., the spooky hour here on the Wee Farm. Why do my eyes fly open consistently at this time of a morning? If I fell asleep at 2:45 a.m. I would still come out of a dream around 3:00 a.m. …sigh. I cain’t have nuthin’ nice. Now granted, most times I lie there and argue with my sleepy self, insisting I fall back to sleep but it’s usually a battle. I always wake up the next morning patting myself on the back for winning the war. But this morning, yep, here I sit in the silence in the dark...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/the-wee-hours-on-the-wee-farm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1605aaa4542e94952b44eb</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:18:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_29170a533fcb41ea80f34a35b35e3490~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Donna Ulisse</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writer's Room - June 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[“SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUEGRASS”                                                                                   Choosing Tunes for Wedding Playlists                                                                                            As spring turns into summer, weddings in city churches, country chapels, and the great outdoors are echoing with tunes familiar to Bluegrass brides and grooms. “If a June night could talk,” said English writer Bernard Williams, “it would...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/writer-s-room-june-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a160678ce062e4a09f19eba</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:18:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3b8817_6bb3158a945d4e349a7401ad8c0f2d12~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Lauver</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The June 2026 Cover Story: Rebekah Speer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don’t tell Rebekah Speer she can’t do something. She will, no doubt, prove you wrong. In the eight years that I have known her, I haven’t seen much that Rebekah can’t do, and what she does, she pours her heart and soul into. Early Years Maybe it was growing up on a family farm in Lincolnton, Georgia, where she did hands-on work like tending to cattle, logging, carpentry, brick masonry, and even septic services, that Rebekah became a real jane-of-all-trades.  Childhood was difficult for...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/the-june-2026-cover-story-rebekah-speer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1608a32a9023e233355c1a</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:18:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3b8817_6e943f5e93494670bcabd723bf17ea6b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Susan Marquez</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lone Bellow: Music Made From Folk Togetherness]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few years ago musician, vocalist and songwriter Zach Williams stretched himself to do something he didn’t want to do. It was outside his comfort zone. For Williams and his bandmates, however, an unexpected reliance on community would leave a creative mark. The Lone Bellow is known for heartfelt Americana soulfulness, and rootsy, emotionally sensitive lyrics. The group’s gospel-esque harmonies are capable of making even the hardest among us get a little misty when the music is witnessed...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/the-lone-bellow-music-made-from-folk-togetherness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a17566003cd524d37e45dc8</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:18:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_e94b8a2760304b2eaf56c83b530faf33~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_683,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kara Martinez Bachman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cross-Cultural “Worldgrass” of Tanasi]]></title><description><![CDATA[For “worldgrass” trio Tanasi, music is about ideas that are understood personally but felt globally. The people, ideas, and music of different places and cultures provide inspiration and prove yet again that music is a universal language. “One of the things the three of us realized early on – beyond our shared love of tight Appalachian harmonies and beautiful melodies – is how deeply we all value travel and the chance to meet people from around the world who share that same love of music,”...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/the-cross-cultural-worldgrass-of-tanasi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1757bdf840e8662c439aed</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:17:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_fe84539af59e4715abbca7745034ca7c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_849,h_846,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kara Martinez Bachman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Little Mercies]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a Saturday afternoon in March, three musicians stood on a wooden stage built around the base of an old-growth sycamore tree on an idyllic piece of property outside of Kosciusko, Mississippi. They were playing for the kickoff of Heart Farms, the passion project of Terry Hunt. “I call Rosalee Walsh my niece,” Terry says. “I just knew I had to get her band to play today.”  It was the end of a week of teaching for The Little Mercies, the band Rosalee has with her friends, Shanice Richards and...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/the-little-mercies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a176926e7ae03e6441ed276</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:17:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_fa61b4d766344732b077e03ed975a4fc~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_427,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Susan Marquez</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing Magoo: Colorado’s Rising Jamgrass Sensation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unable to participate in a phone interview, the band corresponded via email. If jamming bluegrass fires you up, What a Life—Magoo’s debut album—will catch your ear. Based in Colorado, Dylin Flynn (dobro), Erik Hill (guitar, lead vocal), Courtlyn Bills (mandolin), and Denton Turner (bass) stretch tradition beyond its boundaries. Magoo says the album represents the payoff of relentless effort, often recording into the early morning hours at Courtlyn’s home studio in Rollinsville, Colorado....]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/introducing-magoo-colorado-s-rising-jamgrass-sensation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a176abce7ae03e6441ed6db</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:17:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_490a94af300e4ed78f64d8dcafd6e92c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jason Young</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hillary Klug: "We Make Each Other Shine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hillary Klug is a dancing fiddler who wows audiences wherever she goes. Recently, she was in New Orleans, along with Meredith Moon, where they had the crowd at the Cigar Box Guitar Festival on their feet for a power-packed show in the New Orleans Jazz Museum. “The organizer of the festival, Collins Kirby, wanted me to find an accompanist for my gig there. I met Meredith a while back, and we have been wanting to play together.”   As fate would have it, Meredith, the daughter of Gordon...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/hillary-klug-we-make-each-other-shine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1866bd69f69d4475ac8109</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:17:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_f052a8bdd68342fc8dc1a947dbac4642~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Susan Marquez</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the Rocks: Clearly Canadian]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s natural, perhaps, to be inspired to form a bluegrass band if you’re from a place where the music is part of the culture, such as Kentucky or North Carolina. But how does a band in Kelowna, British Columbia,---that’s Canada, folks--come to bluegrass? For the members of Under the Rocks, it took curiosity, happenstance, a love of traditional Canadian fiddle music, and the discovery of a five-string legend. “Yeah, we definitely stumbled into it,” says guitarist and vocalist Jordan Klassen....]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/under-the-rocks-clearly-canadian</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a186988145da5e38306e476</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:16:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_9e5b83db3e8a493abe4f259a25ef6a6e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_480,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brent Davis</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jim Lauderdale: One Foot in Country, the Other in Bluegrass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nashville Songwriting Hall of Famer Jim Lauderdale might make you think country and western, but the two-time Grammy Award winner spoke about his bluegrass heroes, Ralph Stanley, Rolland White, and his latest work with the hard driving Po Ramblin Boys. Known for his country songs, Lauderdale had an early struggle. “I used to be concerned years ago that I had to do just one style of music. And if I didn't do that, then people might not be accepting of me. But I didn’t find that to be true,”...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/jim-lauderdale-one-foot-in-country-the-other-in-bluegrass</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a186af0817f1c3d535ca2b0</guid><category><![CDATA[June 2026]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:15:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_1eab33da67904a34bb76a02046d5b9e5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jason Young</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grassy Creek Bluegrass Band: Having the Time of Their Lives]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Our goal is to keep our band going,” explains mandolinist and lead singer Brian Eversole, father of Julia, 16, and David Eversole, 15. The Eversoles, along with friend and Scruggs-style banjo player Ashton Murray, 13, form the family-run Grassy Creek Bluegrass Band. For those not yet familiar with this band from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, they just recorded their first single, “Weather Girl,” and are thrilled to talk about it. “I was a little nervous, but it was a lot of fun. Once we got there,”...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/grassy-creek-bluegrass-band-having-the-time-of-their-lives</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f26a98829c52805ba9af92</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_54834444ec6e41d1a7791effe7ba7f4f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jason Young</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame Finds Young Tennessee Guitar Maker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty-three-year-old luthier Joshua Young doesn't waste time talking about guitar players; instead, he prefers to rattle off about tone, wood, bracing, jigs, and fretboards—and he does so with the authority of a master craftsman. By all accounts, he is the youngest maker of pre–World War II Martin-style replicas today. Take a stroll over to his YouTube channel, and you will see top-notch pickers Brad Paisley, Tommy Emmanuel, and Billy Strings in awe as they test-drive  his custom-built...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/fame-finds-young-tennessee-guitar-maker</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f36479533c8cdf2db35501</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3b8817_ea9397fba79541b793a106e6d4323c44~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jason Young</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World Cup of Cigar Box Guitar]]></title><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, guitars made of cigar boxes are a testament to human creativity in the face of financial hardship. A simple cigar box, commonly found, serves as the resonator of the instrument, with a neck made of wood – often a broom handle – then strung with screen wire or fishing line to create a do-it-yourself guitar with a distinctive sound.  Cigar boxes, hubcaps, Coke crates, and more were used to fashion improvised string instruments played during the three-day...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/the-world-cup-of-cigar-box-guitar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f26535b22b9270c63a9a84</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_36d65b077abd4972b5ff5a0051b9f93b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Susan Marquez</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening for the B String: Eric Uglum, New Wine Studios, and the Sound of Bluegrass That Breathes]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are studios where the red light comes on and the air tightens like a courtroom. Then there are studios where someone calmly leans into the talkback mic and says, “Do you guys want to check tuning really quick? I think your B string has gone south a little.” The second kind tends to make the records that last. That quiet moment lives at the center of Eric Uglum’s philosophy at New Wine Studios, a studio that began in Southern California in 1994 and now sits in Watertown, Tennessee, just...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/listening-for-the-b-string-eric-uglum-new-wine-studios-and-the-sound-of-bluegrass-that-breathes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f23b34d3f2ae6dd9174cde</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_674f0ea9a350482f96b5874d50034ecc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stephen Pitalo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bright Sound, a Bright Future: The Lauderdale County FFA String Band Make History and Serenade a Governor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Lauderdale County FFA (Future Farmers of America) String Band made history at last year’s National FFA Convention and Expo. The trio comprises Titus Thornton and brothers Conner and Ty McMeans, and they became not only the first band but also the first musical act from Alabama to win the organization’s prestigious talent competition. All three boys were exceptionally young when they became interested in music. Conner began learning banjo at nine, and Titus was the same age when he became...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/a-bright-sound-a-bright-future-the-lauderdale-county-ffa-string-band-make-history-and-serenade-a-g</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f366b36ab422d82874d49d</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_3107b347424447a0bab54411295fc4bc~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_751,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katherine Armbrester</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’ve Goat to Love a Good Gate!]]></title><description><![CDATA[My name is Donna Ulisse and this is going to be my new landing spot in the Bluegrass Standard magazine. The folks here know about me through my music and also my Facebook postings called “The Wee Farm Musings” where I regale readers with my life; every mundane, insane and joyful part of living here on our 8 acre place complete with a pole barn and a huge hay field we let our neighbor farmer mow throughout the season. Oh, we harvest things here…we plow through songs like you wouldn’t believe....]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/you-ve-goat-to-love-a-good-gate</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f2337e0284ed8464df1459</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_29170a533fcb41ea80f34a35b35e3490~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Donna Ulisse</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to Sing Bluegrass Harmony? There’s an App For That!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the song “Nashville Cats” the singer describes guitar pickers who can “pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennessee anthill.” Flashy, fast, high-octane playing on any instrument is prized in bluegrass music.  But so is harmony singing. And two veteran bluegrass musicians/educators have created an app that helps people learn how to create the vocal sound that is an essential element of bluegrass music. The name says it all: singbluegrassharmony.com  “I love a good bluegrass jam...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/want-to-sing-bluegrass-harmony-there-s-an-app-for-that</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f362506ab422d82874c728</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_ea57e114c61945ea952554eff1ebfd01~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brent Davis</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DelFest 2026: One of the Premier String-Band Festivals in the Country]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the early days of bluegrass, musicians created festivals so people could have a place to gather and hear them play. Small festivals popped up like mushrooms around the country, and fans traveled to hear their favorite artists.  Del McCoury recalls those days, back when he first began to play with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1963. Since then, he’s played on countless stages as he has risen through the ranks of bluegrass royalty.  The bluegrass legend hails from York County,...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/delfest-2026-one-of-the-premier-string-band-festivals-in-the-country</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f2632ed3f2ae6dd9179f50</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_35f143d05ea34d96b2f40f516750f5a3~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Susan Marquez</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writer's Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another Hall Of Fame For The Stanley Brothers With this spring’s announcement of a new class of honorees in Nashville, the Stanley Brothers took their place among legendary acts selected to both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Bluegrass Hall of fame. They were selected to the Bluegrass Hall’s second class of honorees in 1992. “Hailing from mountainous southwestern Virginia, the Stanley Brothers—Ralph and Carter—were a foundational act in Bluegrass whose music has influenced generations...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/writer-s-room</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f2384fbc2ce3253fd27491</guid><category><![CDATA[May 2026]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3b8817_6bb3158a945d4e349a7401ad8c0f2d12~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Lauver</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Put Me In, Coach!” Getting the Mojo Treatment at IBMA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Figuratively speaking, Stephen Mougin wears a lot of hats. (Literally, he’s nearly always seen in a black pork pie number). He’s a songwriter, producer, studio owner, radio host, solo performer, and, since 2006, he’s been singing and playing guitar with bluegrass legend Sam Bush.  But every year attendees of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s conference pack a convention hall room to see Mougin (“Mojo,” nearly everyone calls him) in a different role as he conducts his band...]]></description><link>https://www.thebluegrassstandard.com/post/put-me-in-coach-getting-the-mojo-treatment-at-ibma</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cad00f20141e70489d2703</guid><category><![CDATA[April 2026]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea1b8f_5d1c8c37031d4ebcb5f4b3937d6271ff~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brent Davis</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>