Award winning family bluegrass super-entertainers, Cherryholmes, is in the studio working on Cherryholmes III for Skaggs Family Records. The band remains focused on their music and being true entertainers. "Cherryholmes II" was released in June 2007 and opened up at

Nashville, TN - George Jones University (GJU) is a no-nonsense, straight-forward clinic dedicated to teaching students the basics of how the music industry works. Some of the industry's most successful entrepreneurs will lend their knowledge and expertise on breaking into

The award-winning bluegrass band The Grascals is the featured act at this year's Dock Boggs and Kate Peters Sturgill Festival as one of the region's most time-honored music traditions celebrates its 40th anniversary on Sept. 12-13 in Norton. ...

In recent years, there has been an upsurge in interest in "roots music" and "world music," popular forms that fuse contemporary sounds with traditional vernacular styles. In the 1950s and 1960s, the music industry characterized similar sounds simply as "folk

Last month I wrote about a recent release, Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields from Lonesome Records. I just experienced another of their releases, Let It Shine by a young group of very talented artists who call