Author: Aaron Keith Harris

Last March, Dan Tyminski found himself in a place he never thought he would be—near the water in Miami with thousands and thousands of fans of electronic music jammed into Bayfront Park. Tyminski may have the most recognizable male bluegrass voice

What do Alison Krauss, comedian/actor/novelist/art buff Steve Martin, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, classic rocker Tommy Shaw, and country star Dierks Bentley have in common? And what does that list have in common with Trampled by Turtles, Steve Ivey, Dr. Elmo (he

If America has a post-country, post-bluegrass songwriter laureate, one who has absorbed and transcended the idioms of those genres to create a body of work that both mythologizes and humanizes a segment of American life as well as novelists like

Paying tribute to Bill Monroe with a recording of his songs presents a different challenge than it would for any other musician I can think of. The prime mover behind the creation of bluegrass music, his output forms more of

Instead of writing my bluegrass music column, I’ve been watching the World Series. Tonight, it’s Game Six, which is important enough to be capitalized because it could be the last game of the year before a long, cold winter without

Sunday afternoon often has an air of loneliness and finality for me, as the unstructured fun and fellowship of the weekend starts to fade with the advent of the renewed routine of Monday morning. A week ago Sunday was especially

A few impressions of Thursday night's IBMA awards, in no particular order: The folks at IBMA put on another nice evening, and Sam Bush was his usual likable self as host. But no one will ever change the fact that all

Aaron will be a regular columnist at Bluegrass Today, and his initial offering is particularly germane to the hot topic at this year's World Of Bluegrass. I came to love bluegrass music on the night of November, 7, 1997 on what