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Memorial Day Weekend kicks off the Summer Music Festival Season with events of all sizes and genres happening across the United States.

Livestreams are available of Billy Strings' upcoming shows in Colorado at Red Rocks and Mission Ballroom.

Nominations for the 2023 Americana Honors & Awards include nods for Margo Price, Charley Crockett, Allison Russell, Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell.

We have two albums in a row of new Bluegrass covers for New Tunes at 2 this week. First up: this more Newgrass-oriented collection, from one of our favorites. The band is joined by Billy Strings, Oliver Wood, and Darol Anger on this tribute they pay to festival favorites they’ve played over the years from the likes of Dylan, Garcia/Hunter, David Bromberg, Link Wray, and Doc Boggs.

Other big names headed to town include Madonna, Drake and Ed Sheeran and home crowd favorites Kid Rock and Greta Van Fleet.

My gut was telling me to just do it. To just book the flight, buy the ticket, and leave town the next morning. After all, this was Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday bash! How could I miss this legend’s star-studded, two-night festival chalk full of my favorite country music artists? So, like any superfan would have done, I booked my flight on a whim with two of my best friends on a Thursday afternoon and flew out to Los Angeles the following morning. This may have been the most impulsive thing I...

On the third single from their upcoming record GRASS ROOTS, Leftover Salmon collaborated with Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers) to deliver a high octane version of the Link Wray classic "Fire and Brimstone".

Photo Credit: Tobin Voggesser Jamgrass icons Leftover Salmon will release their new full-length cover album, Grass Roots, on May 19 via Compass Records.

Banjo player, singer and songwriter Gina Furtado’s distinctive original songs are an aspect of her music that has won her a boatload of bluegrass airplay. Still, she’s an equally distinctive interpreter, as her previous single, a tip of the hat to African-American gospel favorites, the Golden Gate Quartet, showed — and now she’s following up with another tribute, this time to a couple of bluegrass giants: Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens.

Willie Nelson, who is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has a history of recording rock songs.