For those of us who get to review live music, every once in a while we get slapped upside our head with a reminder of why we love what we do.  For me, the inaugural Hyperion Music and Arts Festival was such an occasion.  My initiation into Hyperion began ...view article

(Ghent, NY -  November 28, 2012) After a one-year journey, The Big Up Music & Arts Festival returns for the summer of 2013.

Shireworks Productions, producer of The Big Up Music and Arts Festival, has shared a transmission received from The Big Up Mothership, who reported it had been ...view article

Legendary jamband, the Zen Tricksters, have teamed up with ex-Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay to produce an eponymous studio recording with a real live feel. And we’re not simply talking about modern interpretations of classic Grateful Dead songs; Listeners are treated to a dozen ...view article

The Travelin’ McCourys are excited to announce their next round of the wildly popular touring festival aptly named The Bluegrass Ball.  The Bluegrass Ball held their inaugural event just over 2 years ago in the Midwest, so it seems appropriate that the latest 3 day run would return to ...view article

On December 30, 2010 Railroad Earth had the pleasure of performing a late-afternoon acoustic set for a select group of fans at the Ogden Theatre in ...view article

As heard by recent rumours, Phish has announced that they will do a summer tour in 2009.  Below is a clip from phish.com:

Phish will perform ten concerts this coming June. The shows kick off with a two night stand at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY June ...view article

“The picture on the cover, that’s Broadway in Baltimore, maybe back around the time I started playing in the clubs,” Del McCoury says with a smile.  Then he adds, just before breaking into his signature, eyebrow-wiggling laugh, “Back then, you could get anything you needed ...view article

Building on an already great lineup, The Werks, are thrilled to announce the addition of Lotus, Greensky Bluegrass, Roevy, Break Science and more to its 3rd annual The Werk Out Festival, held Thursday through Sunday, September 20–23 at Legend Valley in Thornville, OH.

The complete ...view article

On Tuesday March 29, 2011 the Rex Foundation will release 12 tracks from The Wheel - A Musical Celebration of Jerry Garcia. Recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco, this special live album features some of Garcia's oldest cohorts playing some of his most ...view article

When I was but a wee little fourth grader in Saint Paul, MN I worked on a group research project about a place that I had never seen and, as far as I was concerned, was too far away and too wild to possibly exist in the same universe. Yosemite National Park in California was about as distant to me ...view article