Take a ride on Colebrook Road. It will take you to some fantastic places. One recent stop was Grey Fox 2019 and, man, that was quite a jaunt! Colebrook Road, fully emerged, after being an emerging artist at Grey Fox 2018, kicked off
Bluegrass Today Profiles
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California Report: Billy Pitrone of Bean Creek talks new release and more
I caught up with Billy Pitrone, the guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for Bean Creek, at his ditch-side camp at the CBA Fathers Day Festival. Billy is a multi-year winner of the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s male vocalist of the
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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley – Extracting the Blues from Bluegrass
It’s little wonder that Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley have become one of the most talked about duos on the current Grassicana scene. Ickes, a 15 time IBMA Dobro Player of the Year recipient, and Hensley, a 20 something guitar
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Ryan Paisley comes out of his shell
Ryan Paisley with Rhonda Vincent at the 2019 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker The first time I saw Ryan Paisley on stage, I thought it was a gimmick. A cute gimmick, but a gimmick nonetheless. It was 2011, at
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2019 NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival
California is blessed with great weather and fine bluegrass. This past weekend the annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival (GOF) was held in the brown rolling hills of nearby Tres Pinos, CA by the folks at the Northern California Bluegrass
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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Dunderhead shares some Swedish savvy
For the past eight years, the quintet that go by the odd name Dunderhead have been sharing their innate love of bluegrass in their native Sweden, making their music in the streets of their hometown, and as far afield as
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The Miss Ellie String Band mission
Haylee Kinsler, Shelby Peace, Hadassah White, Andi Strong, Halie Lynn, Emily Myers and Allison Broyles “Her passion for traditional music led to the establishment of the Mountain Music School which over the past twelve years has attracted students from ages eight
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California Report: Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers
Ohio-based banjo player Joe Mullins, leader of the Radio Ramblers, has been playing bluegrass virtually his entire life. His list of achievements—including multiple IBMA and SPBGMA awards, playing virtually every major festival in the country and hosting a syndicated weekly
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The RFD Boys – still delivering after 50 years
In October 1969, prompted by fiddle player Richard ‘Dick’ Dieterle, five students from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor decided to get together to form a band. At the time bluegrass music wasn’t very widely known in the upper
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Isaac Eicher – great things come in threes
Let’s talk about the number 3. World renowned Hee Haw and Roy Clark Band fiddle sensation, Shelby Eicher, and his wife, Janet Rutland, have 3 sons. The first, Nathan Eicher, director of bands at Central High School in Tulsa, OK, and bassist for