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2024 Workshops and Camps Are you looking to attend a music camp or workshop this year?   Camps and workshops are a great way to study with top professional players and talented instructors.  Camps and workshops also provide you the opportunity to meet new friends and jamming partners.  Below is a list of camps and…

A Kentucky native, Adkins has had an impressive career in bluegrass music since he started playing the music at Dollywood when he was just seventeen years old.  During this growing period, he played country music and also toured with a rock band from Chicago. For a few years he also was a disc jockey at…

It’s always exciting when an eminently talented newcomer like Ellis emerges on the scene.  This East Tennessee mandolin prodigy wrote these instrumental tunes when he was just twelve years old and recorded them only a year or so later.  As a reference point, he picked up the instrument at age ten and not long afterward…

You could call Kyle Tuttle, longtime member of Molly Tuttle’s band Golden Highway, the Jimi Hendrix of the banjo. On his second album of mostly original songs (based on what he describes in the accompanying press material “the ups and downs of love and loss [and] … some very high times and some very low…

Chris Eaton’s solo release D for Dobro is a collection of nine solo instrumentals in Open D tuning and is a follow-up to the collaborative recording he released last year The UK & Ireland Dobro Celebration.  He stated that, “There’s not very much repertoire for Open D lapsteel, certainly not many solo unaccompanied arrangements.” So,…

Willie Carlisle is a troubadour following in the footsteps of folks like Woody Gutherie, John Prine, Rambling Jack Elliot and Utah Phillips. On his latest release he teams up Grammy-nominated musician and producer Darrell Scott for a well-crafted album full of songs about love and redemption. Carlisle explores what it means to be human as…