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Finds Success and Fills a Niche By all measures, the Blue Ox Music Festival is a young musical gathering. Now going into its 12th year, the festival will return once again on June 25-27, at the Pines Music Park in beautiful Eau Claire, Wisconsin, located between Chippewa Falls and Osseo. The gathering is more proof…

From the vibrant bluegrass scene of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, comes Trish Imbrogno with five stellar tracks on a new EP. Imbrogno, trained as a classical bassist, expanded her musical world to include bluegrass and roots music and has become an in-demand, well-respected, in-the-pocket bassist playing with an array of top pickers.  Joining Trish, who plays bass…

United states Alabama Bluegrass at the Station APRIL 23-25, 2026 University Station Rv Resort  3076 Al Highway 14 W, Auburn, Alabama 36832 570-721-2760 bluegrassatthestation.com Arkansas Spring Mountain View Bluegrass Festival March 12-14, 2026 1032 Park Avenue, Mountain View, AR 72560   501-350-9676 mountainviewbluegrass.com Fall Mountain View Bluegrass Festival November 12-14, 2026 1032 Park Avenue, Mountain View, AR 72560  501-350-9676 mountainviewbluegrass.com…

Gena Britt, who brings a long, impressive resume to the recording studio — she’s a multi-IBMA winner with top-of-the-game Sister Sadie—steps out for highly regarded personal projects and is in demand for fill-ins and studio work. Her new project, Streets, Rivers, Dreams & Heartaches, adds yet another checkmark to that career that’s solid and fun…

In the twenty tracks that make up Bloom Again, Allie Jean Burbrink plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, fiddle, and sings her way through a wonderful array of traditional and original music with a beautiful intimacy and honesty. This is all natural, honest-to-goodness back porch music.  For an album where one artist is doing all the…

Let’s face it—Larry Sparks could cut an album where he sings the ingredient labels for Oreos, peanut butter, and his favorite barbecue rub, and bluegrass fans would set it on repeat and let it ride for an afternoon. And it would be good. And so Sparks, who doesn’t seem to desire to slow down, has…