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The Tenderbellies celebrate their latest recording - only the group’s second album in its 12-year history – with an April 19 ...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco’s free music festival in Golden Gate Park ... show in 2001 put on by venture capitalist-by-day, banjo player-by-night Warren Hellman has grown into ...
The Kentucky Bluegrass Allstars will again open the Saturday lineup at the ROMP Festival this summer, marking the 22nd ...
That’s just one reason Rinzler, who died in 1994 at age 59, was recently inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. He was also a mandolin and banjo player of note ...
Martin describes Brown’s music ... of the banjo … and melodies that can engender an emotional response from the listener.ā€ Steve Martin and Alison Brown on the 'push-pull' in bluegrass ...
79-year-old Steve Martin should also be as well regarded as a banjo-strumming aficionado and historian of bluegrass music. He has released six consecutive No. 1 albums in the genre since 2009.
A master improviser on banjo, he understood the genre’s roots ... a former executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Association, who said Mr. Adcock had a number of chronic ...