Zeb Snyder emerged as a fresh guitar talent about a decade ago playing with the Snyder Family Band, consisting of his younger sister Samantha on fiddle, and his father, Bud, playing bass. I first remember seeing him at a now-defunct autumn […]
People with special talents rarely, if ever, develop in a vacuum. Mozart’s father was an accomplished pianist who recognized a rare talent for composition and performance in his young son. He appears to have been something of a slave driver […]
Several years ago at Strawberry Park — a bluegrass festival in a commercial campground near New London, Connecticut, about halfway between New York City and Boston — I went to the workshop tent to hear Kimber Ludiker. She’s that marvelous fiddler and founder […]
