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Magical Grassical Christmas with the DePue Brothers Band @The Mars Theatre
The sibs DePue merge classical and bluegrass to make their own unique genre, using their incredible violin skills to delve into old-time, Texas Swing, folk, American country, and jazz genres.
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Top 5 Reasons to Go See Yonder Mountain
Newgrass sensations play outside Sunday night at Trustees Garden
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SMF: Ricky Skaggs
“I know where the blessings come from. It’s not because I’m so good. It’s because He is so good.”
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The belle of bluegrass
“I didn’t even consider playing in the band until one night we were sitting around the campfire, and I started singing,” Lynch recalls. “They went ‘Wow, we didn’t know you could sing.'”
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Mark your calendar: Bay Street benefit
Hitman Blues Band drummer Marc Cordray is in desperate need of a kidney transplant, and they don’t come cheap. A bunch of Cordray’s fellow musicians, including the Hitman group, Jan […]
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The banjo to beat
Mark Johnson is a pioneer among contemporary American banjo players. Unlike his buddy Bela Fleck, whose music came to incorporate diverse elements of jazz, classical and world music, Johnson has […]
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Where the bluegrass grows
If there’s such a thing as a bluegrass supergroup, the Boxcars are it. Between them, the five members of this newly–formed outfit have played with all of the top names […]
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Bluegrass on the Rize
The 1970s saw the debut of a new generation of bluegrass musicians, young people weaned on the masters but dedicated to exploring different ways of playing the acoustic music of […]
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Mark your calendar: Jekyll Island bluegrass
Baby, it’s cold outside. That, certainly, is something upon which we can all agree. The thought of attending an outdoor bluegrass festival – even one with the best performers around […]
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The best of bluegrass
Claire Lynch is a musician’s musician. New York–born and Alabama–bred, Lynch has been making beautiful bluegrass music since her late teens. Her first outfit, Hickory Wind, morphed into the Front […]
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Back home again
One of the great pioneers of modern acoustic music, Peter Rowan is not only a melodist and a lyrical tale–spinner, he’s a versatile acoustic guitar player with a fine tenor […]