10/24/2009- Chicago, IL. The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival wants you to like it, and not just for the fact that Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Dr. Dog, Drew Emmitt, and Billy Nershi will be there. It also wants you to believe it when it claims to be everything you love about summer music ...view article
Anticipation has been building for a new release and for the first time in 4 years, Railroad Earth found themselves back in the studio recording all ...view article
Innovative mandolinist/vocalist Jesse McReynolds is probably best-known for his fifty-five year stint as half of legendary bluegrass duo Jim & Jesse, along with his late brother Jim McReynolds. In addition, he also holds the distinction ...view article
The story goes something like this' The [latter day] Band "officially" disbanded in 1998, following the death of bassist Rick Danko. At the time, legendary vocalist/drummer/mandolin player/actor Levon Helm was contending with a major crisis of his own; aggressive treatment for throat cancer ...view article
The 11th annual Wakarusa Music Festival music schedule is here! The 2014 festival will feature Main Stage performances by Michael Franti, STS9 and Adventure Club on Thursday, The Flaming Lips and Infected Mushroom FUNGASAMONGUS on Friday, The String Cheese Incident and BASSNECTAR on Saturday and closing ...view article
The All Good Music Festival and Campout has announced the daily line-up of bands for this year's festival, scheduled for the weekend of July 8 - 11. With a list of bands like this, this year's All Good Festival should be quite the jamfest!
“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
On December 6 - 9 Dark Star Orchestra’s Rob Barraco will join Phil Lesh, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring and John Molo for a return of Phil Lesh and Friends: The Q. This reunited all-star cast will perform four rare and intimate shows taking place at Phil's concert venue, Terrapin Crossroads in ...view article
"Rock and Roll comes from Soul music, and we are tied to that. What we do comes from inside of us. Music is about what you hear and see and feel, but it's also something that is greater than the sum of its parts." - Josh Fairman, bass player for Kinetix.
Tony Rice and Chris Thile & Michael Daves are among the artists to perform free shows at ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center in Urbana, IL, September 8-10, 2011.
Tony Rice’s nimble, progressive sound has earned 10 International ...view article
