The Travelin’ McCourys have a lot to be excited about.  Today they announce the most extensive tour since their inception including several Grateful Ball dates (with Jeff Austin Band) and Bluegrass Ball dates across the country.  They also just released their first recorded single ‘Cumberland Blues’ and are announcing plans to release a new recorded song every month for the foreseeable future leading to the eventual release of a full album. 

You can listen to Cumberland Blues here: https://soundcloud.com/rainmakermanagement/cumberland-blues/s-oNhU3

And finally, the band is excited to announce plans for a 2 day New Years party with Del McCoury Band and Jeff Austin Band at Bluegrass Underground!  Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, September 20^th at 10am CST. ...

This saturday Dark Star Orchestra's Rob Eaton & Jeff Mattson will sit in with New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Grateful Get Down. The Get Down will take place at Mountain Springs Arena in Shartlesville Pa on july 29 & 30.

On Saturday afternoon July 30th take a ride 5 miles down the road to the Pinnacle Jam at Pat Garrett Ampitheater to see Dark Star Orchestra, Mysterytrain & Uncle Jake & the 18 Wheel Gang. A complimentary shuttle will be provided for patrons of both events. Music runs for this event from 3:30pm-11pm. Music at Grateful Get Down will continue during this time. On Saturday, New Riders will start late night at 11:30pm. Music goes to 4:30am...

April 26, 2016 (Masontown, WV) - Deep Roots Mountain Revival Festival is proud to announce the 2016 lineup for its inaugural music and arts festival happening September 15-18, 2016. Headliners Greensky Bluegrass, Leftover Salmon and The David Grisman Sextet will be joined by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Shooter Jennings with Waymore’s Outlaws, Melvin Seals & JGB, Cabinet, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Black Lillies, The Hip Abduction and many more. The festival takes place on the legendary Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masontown, WV, the original site for the All Good Music & Arts Festival. Top-tier bluegrass, jam band, rock and country acts will convene in the picturesque mountains, effectively bringing West Virginia back to the forefront of the festival scene. A confirmed listing of the initial lineup is below. More artists including additional headliners will be announced soon....

Award-winning fiddler/vocalist/songwriter Andrea Asprelli’s approach to music is best summed up in “Alice,” a jaunty highlight from Cricket Tell the Weather’s self-released sophomore album, in which, she states, “I never put down roots, so don’t give them to me now.”  Tell the Story Right, the band’s first recording since their 2014 eponymous debut, is a diverse collection of original compositions, well-chosen covers, and updated traditional songs that challenges preconceived notions of old-time music and delivers one of the strongest Americana offerings of 2016.

Mainstays of the rich New England folk and bluegrass scene, Cricket Tell the Weather is the creative force of Andrea Asprelli and a core cast of young NYC-based traditional musicians that includes Doug Goldstein [banjo], Mike Robinson & Jeff Picker [guitar] and Dave Speranza & Sam Weber [bass].  Asprelli and crew split the recording of Tell the Story Right between studios in Lake Ariel, PA, and New York, NY, and will bring their unique blend of traditional and contemporary elements to audiences throughout the Northeast this autumn in support of Tell the Story Right....

Pennsylvania native/Nashville-based Americana stalwarts, The Stray Birds, follow up their critically-acclaimed 2014 release, Best Medicine, with the dynamic Magic Fire, due out August 19^th, on Yep Roc Records.

Magic Fire expands the band’s rich musical palate by adding drums, organ, pedal steel, piano, and other ancillary instrumentation to the core trio’s acoustic guitar/fiddle/upright bass formula while maintaining and finessing their signature vocal harmonies, plaintive melodies and poignant songwriting. The Stray Birds recorded the album in upstate New York with legendary producer/musician Larry Campbell (Levon Helm Band, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, et. al.) and Grammy award-winning Engineer and mixer Justin Guip (Levon Helm Band).  The record prominently features guest drummer/percussionist Shane Leonard (Kalispell, Field Report, Sara and Sean Watkins, Ben Sollee) and boasts guest appearances by New York experimental jazz-rock musician Marco Benevento and Abigail Washburn collaborator Kai Welch (The Greencards)....

Rare is it in traditional folk music to encounter an artist so overtly involved in the activity of structured teaching.  But Evie Ladin is a teacher, a teacher offering beginning banjo lessons on the internet.  She has also studied African dance and, according to her website, created an African Studies in Dance major at Brown University. 

These seemingly disparate influences are woven together artfully on the Evie Ladin Band’s newest independent release, Jump the Fire.  Her graceful clawhammer-style banjo is a common thread running through the colorful tapestry of imaginative songs which, while exceptionally diverse, also seem to hang together as a whole by  means of Ms. Ladin’s songwriting and interpretative sensibilities.  Backed by bandmates Keith Terry (bass, percussion, vocals) and Erik Pearson (guitar, bass, banjo, vocals), Evie’s sound is enhanced by her and Keith Terry’s unique and inventive use of “body music” or “body percussion.”  While the body percussion sounds can be clearly discerned on the record, it isn’t until the body percussion is witnessed live that one can fully appreciate just how one-of-a-kind this highly entertaining band truly is....