I recently got wind of a new project with Jeff Scroggins, leader and banjo player from Jeff Scroggins and Colorado (JSCO). Jeff is assembling a new band with a host of youngish California bluegrass talent including Scott Gates and members
Bluegrass Today Profiles
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Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band reunion at Telluride
There was a moment during the summer of 2003 when thousands of bluegrass fans who were gathered in a canyon along the St. Vrain River of Lyons, Colorado, collectively drew in their breath and realized that they were witnessing greatness.
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Chris Jones plots his course from roots to relevance
Credit Chris Jones and the Night Drivers for doing their part to expand the traditional tableau of bluegrass. While Jones has always offered his reverence for the roots, on his own, with his earlier outfits Special Consensus, Whetstone Run, the
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Jerry Wicentowski is a lucky break from Bay Area showers
The last couple of weeks Northern California has been treated to some much-needed relief from the atmospheric rivers that dumped on the west coast. Jerry Wicentowski & the Wiseman Institute, made up of Jerry plus Bay Area stalwarts Jody Stecher,
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Kyle Dillingham, Byron Berline, and the Broken Violin
While the smoke has settled in Oklahoma since fire destroyed Byron Berline’s Double Stop Fiddle Shop, yet another Okie native, Kyle Dillingham, has made something positive of a broken violin. Irony has a way of raising its head in odd
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Having a Coffee with ……………. Missy Raines
This is 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. Missy Raines was born in Short Gap in the
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California Report: Ryan Breen of Windy Hill
Ryan Breen is co-founder and holds down the banjo, vocals, and songwriting chair for the San Francisco bluegrass band Windy Hill. They are the backbone of the Bay area bluegrass world, and in 2018 released their fourth album Live from
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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Norway’s bluegrass connection
It’s always interesting and intriguing to find a connection between America’s rural roots and the culture of other countries. It’s particularly fascinating to find an intrinsic element in the music made elsewhere that has common cause with bluegrass, nu-grass, grassicana
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Mile Twelve aims to avoid the sophomore jinx
From the first time I saw a live video of them on YouTube about 6 years ago, it was clear that Mile Twelve had more to offer than the typical young bluegrass band. Without a southern or Appalachian accent to
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California Report: Victor Skidanenko talks Central Valley Boys
Victor Skidanenko is a Bay Area fan favorite performer and teacher of banjo, mandolin, and guitar. He currently plays banjo in the Central Valley Boys and the Thundering Heard, and guitar and mandolin in the True Life Troubadours. Tell us about