These cats are good!
Celebrating the IBMA 2025 Award nominees.
Celebrating the IBMA 2025 Award nominees.
Tracing the work of new roots musicians back to the sources.
Take this Saturday to visit “The Musical Box: Musings on music by Walter Tunis”
Sam Bush pays tribute to his musical mentor and friend, John Hartford, on Radio John.
Remembering American Treasure Doc Watson this month on what would have been his 100th birthday.
When musicians gather onstage for jams, there’s often unexpected fun and sometimes a bit of magic.
Wayfaring Stranger – plaintive yet hopeful – speaks to many on a variety of emotional levels.
Bela Fleck’s first bluegrass album in more than 20 years came out this week. Progressive bluegrass at its best.
The sun broke through on Day 2 of the inaugural Red Wing Roots Music Festival just as John Jorgenson hit the stage. Somewhere, Django Reinhardt was smiling. Jorgenson’s quintet – channeling the Hot Club of France – displayed an amazing level of musicianship while having a great time in the process as one of the headliners at the Shenandoah Valley’s first Red Wing Roots Music Festival. Now some may ask how jazz fits into the Americana roots music pantheon, but the European string jazz of Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli from the 1930s had a direct and transformative impact on roots musicians from David Grisman, to Saturday evening’s headliner Sam Bush, to fiddler extraordinaire Mark O’Connor, to mandolin phenom Chris Thile. Jorgenson’s quintet got to show their chops on Mediterranean Blues, a song written by a Vietnamese-born composer who grew up in England and now lives in Amsterdam. Every solo was inventive and exhilarating – which is just as true about the songs in Jorgenson’s entire set. Saturday’s music began for us with Staunton native Nathan …
Congratulations to Chris Thile, a 2012 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship grant.