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Punch Brothers shared "Any Old Time," set to land on their forthcoming Tony Rice tribute album, 'Hell on Church Street.'

On the most celebratory night of a smaller-than-usual World of Bluegrass, in Raleigh, NC, the IBMA Thursday night crowned a new Entertainer of the Year and one of its youngest ever in bandleader and songwriter Billy Strings. The artist, who released his third album last Friday, also won Guitar Player of the Year for the second time in three years.

SC ethics panel fines Horry County Council leader for 2018 campaign finance violations The Sun News 5 hrs ago J. Dale Shoemaker, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Jul. 16—Horry County Council's chairman Johnny Gardner admitted to six violations of state ethics rules stemming from his 2018 campaign for chairman, and agreed to pay a $3,650 fine, the South Carolina Ethics Commission said. The charges against Gardner were campaign finance violations. An investigation by the Ethics Commission found that he improperly handled loans to his campaign and accepted several campaign d...

  For the first time in its 49-year history, the celebrated RockyGrass bluegrass festival will offer a dynamic livestream. Produced by award-winning NOCOAST TV, the high-definition stream, which features 8 cameras and stereo audio will be available July 23rd to 25th, 2021. The sold-out festival lineup includes Bela Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart, Sam Bush Bluegrass Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, Del McCoury Band, Della Mae, Tim O’Brien Band, Peter Rowan & Jerry Douglas, the Lil Smokies, and more. Planet Bluegrass has coordinated a unique on-stage collaboration to celebrate the life and musi...

Chris Eldridge and John Zorn. Some projects have been better than others, especially as his instrumental skills grew faster than his writing abilities. But he truly got better with every album, and they’ve all led up to Squint, his leader debut for the revered Blue Note label. Lage has always claimed as many influences from rock, blues, folk and country as from jazz, and as he’s gotten older, he’s folded them into his music with increasing subtlety. This is no blowing session, where he shows off every style he can play. Instead Lage uses just the right bits of his experiences to serv...