Additions include: Umphrey’s McGee • The John Butler Trio • The Word (John Medeski, Robert Randolph, Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson, Chris Chew) • Lake Street Dive • Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers • Lotus • The Jeff Austin Band featuring Danny ...view article
We're sorry to announce that Merl Saunders, at age 74, passed away early yesterday. After Saunders suffered a debilitating stroke in 2002, he lost his ability to speak but continued to sit in on ...view article
Chillicothe, IL – March 8, 2012 – After a great response to last year’s inaugural Camp Counselor program, the Summer Camp Music Festival is excited to announce its return for this summer’s festival, held Memorial Day weekend May 25-27 at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, ...view article
AUSTIN, Texas — Oscar-winning actor and musician Jeff Bridges and his band, the Abiders, will join a red carpet-worthy lineup of talent performing at the 27th annual Old Settler’s Music Festival, April 10-13 at the Salt Lick Pavilion and Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, Texas. Bridges ...view article
In a recent blog post, Kyle Hollingsworth discusses his #4 top influential keyboardist, Brent Mydland, "I remember being freaked out about the name “Grateful Dead,” I always imagined a heavy metal band of sorts, but once I listened to what they were doing, I had more respect for the ...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
Early bird tickets and VIP packages are now on sale for the 2nd annual Railroad Earth’s Hangtown Halloween Ball, October 26 – 28, 2012. Together with Pet Projekt Presents and their new partners at High Sierra Music, they will return to the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville, CA for yet ...view article
“No Service” Dave Bruzza, frontman for Greensky Bluegrass, proclaimed jubilantly over the intimate Saturday night crowd at Yarmony Grass Festival in early August. Those two words pretty much summed up the feel of this ...view article