Author: Dick Bowden

I hated to read on Bluegrass Today that the "Colonel," Everett Lilly, had passed away. Growing up amidst New England bluegrass as I did, we heard a lot about the Lilly Brothers, and I was fortunate enough to see them perform

No, that’s not a reference to the Knights Who Say “Ni!” – Ni is Japanese for Deux. When we left our intrepid travelers Kelly Stockwell and Paul Millman of Vermont, they were winging their way to Japan on a business trip

I grew up way Downeast in Maine surrounded by a country music loving family and friends. In the early 50s. By the time I started school in 1958 I was hearing the sounds of Flatt & Scruggs, Mac Wiseman, Bill Clifton,

... or, USA’s bass pickin’ Kelly meets Japan’s mandolin pickin’ Shin Some of us folks in the business world do a lot of traveling. For bluegrassers, business travel often spins off into great musical experiences like concerts, jams, vintage instrument stores, festival

This week readers of the San Francisco Chronicle can enjoy a great bluegrass-oriented feature written by Sam Whiting. The article prominently features two bluegrass art forms that have joined and prospered at an East Bay neighborhood English pub, the Kensington Circus

From the home of Colt’s Patent Firearms, Mark Twain and America’s insurance industry — Hartford, CT — comes an intimate Sunday afternoon bluegrass club experience at the award-winning Firebox Restaurant. Located at 539 Broad Street, in the shadow of the

Gabrielle Gray, Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in Owensboro KY, made a fund raising visit to the Northeast, showing a clip of IBMM’s documentary film Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered, in the Boston suburb of Brookline Monday

This CD is for the old timers—unapologetic “old school” traditionalists. My people… Us “old foggies” know the locomotive sound and feel of a Paul Warren fiddle breakdown with Lester Flatt, Cousin Jake, Uncle Josh, and Earl Scruggs - or one of