The Seldom Scene - photo by Michael Stewart
They’re pulling out the shoe horn to get all the acts tucked into the schedule for this year’s 42nd annual Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, Ind.
Billed as “The Mecca of Bluegrass,” the annual festival is regarded by many as the grand-daddy of all [...]

Andy Hall will celebrate his upcoming Sugar Hill release “Sound of the Slide Guitar” with an 8:30 p.m. performance at the world famous Station Inn in Nashville, Tenn. on Saturday, January 12th. The Infamous Stringdusters, which is Hall’s main gig these days will also play a 9:30 p.m. show at the Station Inn that night.
“Sound [...]

Fred Eaglesmith
In 2002, acclaimed bluegrass singer James King took Fred Eaglesmith’s “Thirty Years of Farming” to the top of the bluegrass song chart. And now other noted bluegrass acts such as Ralph Stanley II and Blue Moon Rising have also recorded Eaglesmith songs.
King first heard “Thirty Years of Farming” when some of his Canadian fans [...]