Preserving The Tradition of Bluegrass Into The Future

For Grammy Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin, music is more about commonalities than differences. He said his favorite...

Asleep at the Wheel is expected to bid adieu to the road. The nine-time Grammy award-winning Western swing band from the Lone Star State...

Bluegrass is a music genre that cannot be defined by a region. With roots in Ireland and Appalachia, the music has spread like wildfire...

For Stephen “Mojo” Mougin, the name of his label, Dark Shadow Recording, symbolizes a small, passionate company with a big heart. “It was...

U-pick farms have become an increasingly popular attraction in the rolling hills and winding valleys of Appalachia, where farmland...

Bluegrass doesn’t have to be a battleground between past and present. Sometimes, it’s a new sprout planted in fertile soil, taking all...

Despair not, all ye who have struggled to learn the banjo. Self-described “ebanjolist” Matt Brown brings good tidings of great two-finger...

Thomm Jutz grew up in Germany’s Black Forest, but he’s very much at home with the music of Appalachia. That’s one reason this successful...

Many of us stray from our origins, seeking to expand our horizons and experience new things. Over the years, though, we often sate that...

Starting as a (semi)traditional bluegrass band, Boston, Mass.-based Twisted Pine has evolved over the years into something more open than...

When fiddler and mandolin player Despina Pafralides had an idea to start an all-female band, she called on Cassie Lynn Wright, who played...

Don’t try to put Melissa Barrison in a box. “Bluegrass folks say I play the violin. Symphony folks say I play the fiddle. I don’t really...