We first saw the fabled Seldom Scene at a concert at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, one cold winter day in 2010 and immediately fell in love with them. Later that year, during their appearance at Strawberry Park, […]
Memory is a strange and wonderful artifact. When I was a teacher, students who were seniors referred to school habits as traditions, though much of what they referred to this way had just been initiated when they were in middle school. Family […]
Genius has within it the seeds of its own destruction. Bill Monroe labored for years to find and develop a musical sound he heard in his head. He experimented throughout his sojourn in the industrial necklace around the Great Lakes […]
This is the 16th year for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer to run at Hoover-Y Park in Lochbourne, OH. In 2000, Mandy Adkins died of an aggressive brain stem tumor at the age of 19, after treatment at St. Jude Children’s […]
This second entry from two of the most recognizable singers in bluegrass — Dudley Connell with the Seldom Scene, Don Rigsby with the Lonesome River Band, and both with Rounder supergroup Longview — finds them mostly on different ground than […]
Dudley Connell’s distinctive, throaty voice was, for many years, one of the aural hallmarks of the dynamic Johnson Mountain Boys. Don Rigsby’s crystalline tenor provides the hair-raising high harmony for the Lonesome River Band. More recently, the two found themselves […]
