Author: Dale and Darcy Cahill

The Mountain at the 2025 Lonesome Fest - photo © Dale & Darcy Cahill Lonesome Fest held its tenth annual festival last weekend at Belgian Meadows Farm in Lebanon, Maine. Cecil Ables and Peter Dellea, good friends and producers of the

Bloodroot Gap at the 2025 Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival - photo © Dale Cahill Over the first weekend in August, Podunk held its 28th bluegrass festival. The festival takes place each year at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen, Connecticut, and this

As many folks already know, Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, founded by Patti Crooker in 1979, held its final festival in 2024. The property in Thomas Point, Maine was sold, and the new owners will not be continuing the Labor

One thing that fiddle player Betsy Heron, banjo player Gretchen Bowder, guitar player Whitney Roy, and bass player Kindsay Lassonde have in common, is their love of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard's music, as well as a mutual respect for

Guitar maker and intricate inlay artist, David “Dave” R. Nichols, 81, of Malone, NY passed away on January 22, 2025 at Champlain Valley Hospital, Plattsburgh with his family by his side. Dave was born on April 22, 1943 to the

Sister Sadie at the 45th annual Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival - photo © Dale and Darcy Cahill Over Labor Day weekend, Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival celebrated its 45th birthday with an amazing line up, and a typically enthusiastic crowd

Michael Cleveland with The Travelin' McCourys at GMBR '24 - photo courtesy of the festival Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots festival's fifth season once again included a mixture of traditional bluegrass and roots artists, singer/songwriters, and three days of a well-managed

At the end of May, Jacob Jolliff released his latest album, Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Mandolin Mysteries, on Adhyaropa Records. If you are familiar with Jolliff, you have probably listened to Instrumentals Vol 1, released in 2018 when Jacob was a

Twisted Pine at the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots festival - photo by Dale Cahill Twisted Pine has been on the road now for nine years, having originally joined forces in 2013 when they played primarily bluegrass tunes. Bluegrass was common

The Gibson Brothers at the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Festival - photo © Dale Cahill The 44th Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival was held under blue skies this year. Thomas Point's typically enthusiastic crowd of veterans and newcomers filled the seats