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Modern bluegrass band Never Come Down just needs one microphone. When they perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24 at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts, 200 W. Main Cross St. in Findlay, ...
For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...
a wholly improvised bluegrass musical featuring brand new lyrics to old-timey bluegrass standards, played by a rotating cast on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin ...
We’ve also got a lot of new music in the works that we ... be more informed about the traditional idea of bluegrass and what these instruments are going to do and other folks might not be ...
For the uninitiated, bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music predominately making use of acoustic stringed instruments – banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars and upright basses – to ...
The Appalachian Tunes (AT) program will begin an 8-week semester on April 29 that will run through June 17 at the Ashe Civic ...
In 2000, Christianson received a degree in String Instrument Repair from Minnesota State College ... and the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Collaborative Recording of the year. He has made many ...
Grammy-nominated mandolinist, singer and songwriter Sierra Hull talks about collaboration, musical development and touring with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.
The Minnesota Music Hall of Fame gained six new members Friday. Turner Hall hosted the 36th annual induction ceremony. This ...
Their work pays homage to the rich history of bluegrass while pushing creative boundaries and exploring new musical avenues ... as a lyric-and-melody-driven instrument that allows instruments ...
I'm always, you know, picking up an instrument or doing something musical ... You've won Best Mandolin Player six times at the International Bluegrass Music Awards. How do you continue to improve ...
Now in its 39th year, Festival International runs during the first weekend of Jazz Fest, starting on the evening of Wednesday ...