Christies Auction House will be selling the original headstock plate from Bill Monroe’s Lloyd Loar-signed Gibson f5 mandolin to the highest bidder on Dec. 3, 2009.

Former Gibson empoyee Pat Aldworth has listed the item for sale and has made, then co-worker Rendall Wall a partner in the sale. Experts at…

Flat Rock / Hendersonville, NC — Continuing in it’s 14th year, the Flat Rock Music Festival is offering a wider array of workshops for festival goers than ever offered previously. “Response from the previous workshops has been so positive,” said Festival Director Kathlene Stith, “that we had to find larger areas to host the workshop sessions, and also bump up the number of of different workshops offered.”…

The Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation has announced another fund-raising initiative as the group continues its efforts to buy the historic campgrounds and festival site in southern Indiana that was once owned by Bill Monroe….

Burlington, MA – Rounder Records, in conjunction with The Woody Guthrie Archives, will inaugurate the new Woody Guthrie Legacy Series with a 4-CD boxed set, My Dusty Road on August 25. The original metal masters for these songs, recorded in the mid 1940s by Herbert Harris and Moses Asch, had languished for years…

This coming weekend marks the 12th edition of the Milan Bluegrass Festival at the KC Campground in Milan, Mich.

Festival promoters Jim and Fay Wilder of Wilder Bluegrass Festivals have packed the cream of the bluegrass crop into the three-day schedule, Aug. 13, 14 and 15…