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It’s always a pleasure to hear young and promising artists come into their own like the Price Sisters have done on their third release. The beauty and purity of their sisterly harmonies are both breathtaking and inspiring and often bring to mind great bluegrass duets of the past. The Ohio-born twins—Leanna Price on vocals and…

Gary Ferguson is a well-known and popular guitarist and songwriter based in the Pennsylvania-Maryland area. Colin Henry is a well-known and popular resonator-guitar player based in Ireland. Ferguson met Henry on one of Ferguson’s many Irish tours and the pair hit it off immediately, with Henry eventually joining Ferguson on some of the tours. As…

Vermont-based Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of New England folk music, the traditional niche which she has carved out. With her sweet, plaintive voice, fiddle wizardry and stirring original songs, she brings fresh life and immediacy to the genre. Like many inspired works of the past few years, Falling Forward was born out of the…

Annie Staninec resides in Portland, Oregon, and began playing fiddle at a very young age. She has been a music teacher and performer and has toured a number of countries. She plays everything from bluegrass to rock and has played with such as David Grisman, Darol Anger and Rod Stewart. She is now a member…

[Editor’s Note:  In our January, 2024 issue we ran an article about the new Earl Scruggs exhibit at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, North Carolina.  Part of that exhibit includes information from a 17,000 word document that Earl had written about his life.  In our previous article, we included a few excerpts from that…

Pours his Heart Out on Stage “This is the boss of the family; she’s 17,” Dave Adkins explains as he introduces Lila Jean, one of his many canine friends. The Pikeville, Kentucky, singer/songwriter is definitely a huge animal lover. He can’t turn away those adorable pooch and cat faces and often fosters and adopts four-legged…