Nashville, Tenn. - Newly named “Father of Newgrass,” Sam Bush, recently received five award nominations from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) to complement his year of accolades and long career of distinction. This year, the four-time IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year ...view article
30db, the unassuming collaboration between guitarist Brendan Bayliss of the improvisational Chicago band Umphrey’s McGee and mandolinist Jeff Austin of Boulder’s top-flight Americana unit Yonder Mountain String Band, is creating buzz among critics and fans alike. ...view article
Furthur has announced that they will headline the All Good Festival at Marvin's Mountaintop in Masontown, West Virginia July 8-11. This can also be a hint that summer dates may be released soon from Furthur.
This year's lineup at the All Good Festival showcases an amazing line-up of musicians ...view article
DENVER — Swallow Hill Music’s Rootsfest returns for its 5th annual celebration of roots music featuring quintessential folk musicians David Crosby & Graham Nash on Saturday, April 9th at Denver’s historic Paramount Theatre.
I'd like to tell you a story about a band called Umphrey's McGee and how they changed all of the rules in a matter of four hours. Last Saturday night I was witness to history being made. The inaugural UMBowl event took place in front of myself and five hundred other fantastically lucky ...view article
When we think about those special places that have been carved out by nature, seemingly for the purpose of “becoming” musical venues, our first thoughts run to the magical vistas of places like the Gorge, Red Rocks and Mountainview. But perhaps the most magical of these places is ...view article
The inaugural Ride Festival - happening August 25 and 26, 2012 in Telluride, Colorado – today announces Lucinda Williams and Jimmy Herring to the already stellar lineup. They join the previously confirmed Big Head Todd & The Monsters, ...view article
Del McCoury was already hard at work in Baltimore’s lively bluegrass music scene when the very first Grammy awards were presented more than 50 years ago, but you couldn’t tell it from the way he bounded up the steps to thank the Grammy voters for honoring his Del McCoury Band’s ...view article
What happens when you put African grooves born in the ghettos of Zimbabwe with the ground breaking guitar work of San Francisco’s scene and combine it with New York City’s urban electronica? The west coast is about to find out.
Joining together for their first multi-night tour, and performing ...view article
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