If there is one thing that people enjoy more than linking turns on the slopes, it’s listening to live music throughout the summer season. Summit County locals and visitors alike will have an ...
Bluegrass came into being, at least in our modern understanding of the genre, alongside recorded music. That means we have recordings from the earliest bluegrass stars up until now. Rest assured, ...
“Bluegrass is very community-based,” says mandolinist Patrick Kerrigan Fitzsimons, one of the founders of the academy. “You don’t need fancy equipment. You just carry your instrument, sit in a circle ...
This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...
If it’s January, you know it's time to jam at the Great 48. This first big local music event of the year will bring hundreds of performers from all over the state to jam at the Bakersfield Marriott at ...
The 52nd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival brought a stellar lineup to the Colorado mountain town this weekend, with artists from Zach Top and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit to Alison Krauss & Union ...
Mt. Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, recalled listening to two women sing “Foggy River” as a man accompanied them on fiddle ...
Any musician who’s ever jammed with a group knows the deep connection that can form between players. Jam sessions can be a moment of clarity, when all the pressures of the world are drowned out and ...