Most of the BluegrassJournal.com staff will be attending a couple different bluegrass festivals over the weekend.
Bob Dieterlen and myself are off to the Franklin Music Festival in Franklin, Ky., for the weekend. Should be another great festival. This year’s lineup is stronger than last year’s featuring some of the best Bluegrass has to offer. [...]

Washington, D.C. — Eleven master artists from around the country will arrive in Washington, D.C. the week of September 15th for a series of celebratory events to honor their receipt of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The fellowship is the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional [...]

Nashville, Tenn. — Prolific songwriter Jeffrey Steele will bring his guitar and hitmaking acumen to the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum on Saturday, September 27, as the latest subject of the quarterly programming series Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters. The 1:30 p.m. program, which will be held in the Museum’s Ford [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Bluegrass and acoustic musicians and fans from throughout the Midwest will converge this week at a central Illinois state park on land that a young Abraham Lincoln called home for six years.
The 26th annual Traditional Music and Bluegrass Festival will be held at Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg, Ill., [...]