This question popped up on my Facebook feed on Monday morning: “In your opinion, is bluegrass music on the decline, or it it growing? And what will it be like in 20 years??” The writer, in his explanation, went on […]
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Kenny Stinson & Perfect Tym’n is a relatively little-known bluegrass band that comes from Frankfort, Kentucky. Composed of three family members and two additional sidemen, they present a picture of a hard-working, blue collar band who earn their fee every […]
I simply didn’t get it. My wife and I were early in our bluegrass journey at Pickin the the Pasture, near Lodi, New York, on a hill high above fabled Lake Cayuga, with Cornell University sitting ten or twelve miles […]
The history of bluegrass online is nearly as old as the World Wide Web itself. Cybergrass, owned and operated by computer pioneer Bob Cherry, was launched on Sept. 9, 1992 (though it didn’t go by that name until 1995). It […]
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, […]
Monroe Crossing may be one of the best bluegrass bands in the country that too few know anything about. Based in the great bluegrass hotbed of Minnesota, they have been together for 17 years, keep a busy schedule, and have […]
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 […]
I love surprises. On New Year’s Eve this year, one of our sons got married to a wonderful young woman who has enriched his life. The reception ended at midnight on one of the coldest nights of the year with […]
It’s January third and many bluegrass musicians have been, more or less, on hiatus. Some notable festivals occur during the cold months, but, in a genre whose most popular manifestation has, historically at least, been outdoors at festivals and pickins, […]
This week’s column continues my thoughts from last week about how I got to bluegrass (and other music throughout my life). … And then life happened. We (that’s Irene, who’s always the “we” in my blogs and columns … has […]
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