Mapping out our “duo” set list with Del McCoury at Bonnaroo, 2014.
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Thursday’s Saturday and Friday’s Thursday It’s Friday morning, but it looks a lot like Thursday in Telluride’s Town Park. Thursdays are a bit laid back. Some folks aren’t off work yet, or are just taking their time getting into town. Thursdays are […]
The vast majority of bluegrass bands are local ones. Most of the national bands with shiny big buses wrapped in graphics displaying the band’s name have sprung from the primordial soup of local and regional bands that are found, to […]
Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
This year’s IBMA World of Bluegrass was exciting and engaging from start to finish, with varied and exciting performances, wonderful vignettes, and changes galore. The success of World of Bluegrass and Wide Open bluegrass depends on the partnership between the […]
Time to add a few shows to your fall live music list — Del McCoury just announced plans for 35 new tour dates with the Travelin’ McCourys and the Del McCoury Band. Kicking off in Pittsburgh on October 3, the […]
It had been raining off and on, sometimes quite hard on Saturday at the Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival in Thornton, New Hampshire. August in New England is usually the beginning of a dry, crisp, slightly cooling period, simply perfect for […]
I have recovered from my annual trek to Finger Lakes, where I sat in on 17 Culture Camp workshops along with two dinners and dances, 63 festival sets, and two thunderstorms during my five-day visit. Wet, yes, but it did […]
By now you you have read Kim’s enchanting piece on this year’s MerleFest, now comes my take on MerleFest at 30. Rather than a blow by blow, I’ll go with some takeaways. Here now are mine for MerleFest’s 30th edition. […]
MerleFest. Just saying its name can cause goosebumps and bring forth a flood of memories. Not just me, but other folks I meet along my music travels have the same feelings when I ask them if they have ever been […]
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