Over the past week or so, while there were some exciting festivals going on in the eastern half of the US, there was an extremely nice one-day celebration of the 75th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The […]
The sun has set on the final day of the 2016 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and the fans and bands are packing their tents to head home, wherever that may be. As is typically the case on Sunday at […]
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has announced the list of participants for its two 2016 Superjam performances, as well as its theme for the Saturday night Superjam. Both announcements should give any roots-loving Bonnaroo goers reason to be giddy. […]
MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
Sam Bush Sitting In With The Kruger Brothers Playing Hillside Stage Sunset Jam @ Merlefest 2106
Jens Kruger of The Kruger Brothers and Sam Bush playing Hillside Stage Sunset Jam at Merlefest 2016
The hillside at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, is nowhere you would ever go, were it not for the musical lineup that graces the stage at the bottom of the hill once a year for four days. It’s a […]
The folks at Planet Bluegrass made their final lineup announcements for this year’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival today. Once again (this will be #43) we’ll be treated to “Telluride Bluegrass”, that self-defining non-genre tied to newgrass, but including everything from rock to old-school bluegrass. […]
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 […]
