Kingston was one of the first weird places that I ended up in because of music. Kingston is a ghost town in the Black Range mountains of southwestern New Mexico. After a silver strike in 1882, Kingston quickly became one […]
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C. Elliott was at it again last week, covering two festivals in Arizona over a single three-day weekend: McDowell Mountain Music Festival in Phoenix and Innings Festival in Tempe. Those of us in the East who have seen several snowfalls and below-freezing […]
Bruce Molsky is a name that resonates throughout the roots music world. The old-time fiddler, who also plays banjo and guitar and sings, has been recording and performing for over 40 years, both solo and with Andy Irvine, Darol Anger, […]
If you aren’t aware of it, you soon will be. This August will mark the 50-year anniversary of the music festival we all know as Woodstock. The three-day festival was a counterculture zeitgeist, reflecting the rapid changes in society and […]
Today, the FreshGrass Foundation announces the addition of Folk Alley to its community of roots music organizations. The Foundation, which began in 2017, aims to preserve, support, and create innovative grassroots music, and achieves this mission by producing the annual […]
Although John Hartford might have been best known by the larger public as a banjo player, especially through his appearances on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, his fans remember him as a fiddler, preserving […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The author’s band, Man About a Horse, was the winner of the 2018 FreshGrass band award and, as part of their prize, won a recording session at Compass Sound Studio. This is the story of their visit there. […]
Bluegrass music has a long and lively history in Florida, where we’re coming close to the end of another winter festival season. While many people who come to the Sunshine State love to cluster along the Atlantic or Gulf shores, […]
“Everything that happens between this Cayamo and the next is just filler.” — Tommy Emmanuel (as reported by Brenda Rosser) I followed this year’s Journey Through Song on the high seas more closely than in years past as its attendees were […]
When Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish sing together, it sounds timeless. But there was a time — their first three years, in fact — when The Honey Dewdrops existed without those signature intertwining vocals. In their early years as a […]
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