This week we’ll focus our attention on young folks playing old-time and traditional music. Just a few years ago, players of traditional music were mostly older, but today many of the best have come out of academic and workshop experiences … Continue reading →
We lost a great musician on Christmas Day when Tony Rice passed at the age of 69. His friend Ricky Skaggs described Tony as “the single most influential acoustic guitar player in the last 50 years.” This week’s show, we’ll … Continue reading →
On this week’s show, we celebrate that harbinger of spring in the bluegrass community as a bunch of new bluegrass CDs are released right before festival season. We’ll feature new music from Mile Twelve, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, Molly Tuttle, … Continue reading →
On this week’s show we begin a two-part feature celebrating Women’s History Month. We’ll hear some wonderful music from some of the finest musicians and singers who just happen to be women. Included are selections from Claudia Schmidt, Rachel Eddy, … Continue reading →
This week we’ll focus on music from young artists who take a musical style and create something distinctly new and personal. We check in on selections from Mipso, Connla, I’m With Her, Vivian Leva, Molly Tuttle and lots more, as … Continue reading →
This week we conclude our two-part Bluegrass Timeline feature with some more contemporary recordings and artists. We recently were added to the lineup on Bluegrass Planet and these two program are dedicated to that online resource for fine acoustic music … Continue reading →
This week we complete our three-part program featuring the best music from 2017. This time it’s bluegrass and blues, with fiddles and banjos from Molly Tuttle, Noam Pikelny, Old Salt Union and many more. And on the blues side we’ll … Continue reading →
“I feel the shadows now upon me…” I remember driving to Mt. Greylock with Pat one time, telling him about a singer I had just discovered. I said she had the kind of voice I’d like to hear on my … Continue reading →
