Maddie Witler is mandolin player and vocalist in the Boston-based Lonely Heartstring Band, which just released its third album, Smoke & Ashes. Maddie hails originally from La Crescenta, California. She picked up the mandolin when she was 14 and fell
Bluegrass Today Profiles
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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Gangstagrass takes their sound to a decidedly new destination
Bluegrass and hip hop are rarely spoken of in the same context. And the fusion of the two forms puts the band Gangstagrass beyond those borders in the strictest sense. Indeed, this intrepid ensemble has managed to make a bold
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Amy Lavicky and her Memorial Day fiddle
As you drive down the street on Memorial Day, you will see the brick paved streets adorned with the United States Flag. These flags are distributed by our local veterans, and active military. There is significant difference between Memorial Day
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California Report: Laurie Lewis on Hartford Memorial Festival and more
Looking at the lineup for the 2019 edition of the John Hartford Memorial Festival, it may not seem that California is well represented. But in her first appearance at the Hartford Festival, Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, singer, songwriter, fiddler and
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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: The Small Glories Make a Big Impact
Cara Luft and JD Edwards, the prime members of the Canadian combo known as the Small Glories, mine a sound drawn directly from a distinct rootsy regimen. With their close knit harmonies and an archival folk-like feel, their music taps into
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Happy 80th to Dave Freeman!
Happy Birthday to David Freeman! We hope that you have a wonderful day. Dave Freeman’s life has been reasonably-well documented in these pages; with this reflective article in February 2008, and an overview of the 50 years of County Sales published
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Neil Rosenberg 80 years young
Best known as the writer of the definitive book about the history of bluegrass music, Neil Rosenberg, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, has contributed to the genre in many ways, besides being an author and historian. Born in Seattle, Washington,
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California Report: Master Fiddler Brandon Godman
Brandon Godman is a Kentucky native, master fiddler, and relatively new transplant from Nashville to San Francisco. He has played with greats such as Dale Ann Bradley, Melvin Goins, Karl Shiflett, Doyle Lawson, and David Peterson and 1946. He currently
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Having a Coffee with ……………. Tina Adair
This is a fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so famous, about some of their interests as well as about the music that they love. A singer and song-writer from Haleyville, Alabama, Tina
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David Crowder adds bluegrass colors to I Know A Ghost
Many performers who paint a portrait of their musical experience don’t rely on one color from their palette. They dab their brush into a variety of hues like country, bluegrass, rock, blues, jazz, and other genres. That’s certainly the case