Nate Silver, the statistical wizard who made his bones as a baseball analyst and then proved his mastery by making eerily accurate predictions of elections over the past few cycles, edits a blog called Five Thirty Eight. A feature of […]
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Last weekend we attended our first Florida bluegrass festival of the season. The YeeHaw Music Fest, approaching its 25th anniversary as a festival next year, has a noble history. Like many festivals, it owes more to fandom than professional polish. […]
By winning the Steve Martin prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, Rhiannon Giddens stands as an important symbol for understanding an instrument that, while it provides the principal sound that has helped define bluegrass music, has a long, deep […]
Washington Square in Greenwich Village, New York, has an arch modeled after the Arc de Triumph in Paris, France, by the great American architect Sanford White. The arch was ereceted to honor the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration as the first president […]
Many bluegrass pickers — both good amateurs and professionals — really did learn to play on the back porch, whether it’s a symbolic back porch or a real one. Tut Taylor, the late, great flatpicking Dobro man, learned his unique […]
One early Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, Irene and I found ourselves driving north through Florida’s midlands, heading from a bluegrass festival to a state park near Orlando where we enjoy the quiet, the terrain, and the change […]
Hot Rize is back along with sidekicks Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers and I personally could not be happier. They were the ones who convinced me that bluegrass could be much more than just bluegrass and since hearing that first […]
One of the unique features of bluegrass is the importance of jamming to the growth and development of the genre, as well as continuing its traditional nature. Go to large or small festivals. Take a walk through the campground, and […]
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