Umphrey's McGee throws a lot of parties during the course of the average touring year, but the throw down of throw downs has always been their New Year's Eve celebration in their home city of Chicago.. Despite stepping down from the grandeur of last year's Auditorium Theatre, the three set ...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
For more than 30 years, Jerry Joseph has been strapping on a guitar and chasing down truth, understanding and soul with tenacity and resonant skill. Joseph is the archetypal musician’s musician - something that’s resoundingly clear on his sweeping new double album Happy Book, ...view article
The all-star holiday lineup of Cascadia Yulegrass, brought together by Jason Mastrine, brought it's show to the beautiful McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon. It was an idea that Jason had been orchestrating for years, and had finally come to fruition. The lineup for this inagural even consisted of ...view article
CHICAGO - The North Coast Music Festival (NCMF) is set to return Friday, August 29th, through Sunday, August 31st to celebrate it's 5th year anniversary in the beautiful city of Chicago! For the 5th year in a row, NCMF will bring together ...view article
April 23, 2014 – Baltimore, MD – Music fans from all over the region are encouraged to join in the celebration of the inaugural Believe in Music Festival held Saturday, July 26 at Oregon Ridge Park in Cockeysville, MD. Featuring live performances from Thievery Corporation, Rodrigo y Gabriela, ...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.
Formed by members of 90's San Francisco Hip-Hop/Jazz pioneers, Alphabet Soup; Les Claypool's (Primus/Sausage); and Bob Weir's RatDog, the Band of Brotherz explore/remix songs of the Grateful Dead through hip-hop. The band has officially solidified ...view article
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