• Weekend photos from FL Bluegrass Classic

    Nothin' Fancy at the 2019 Florida Bluegrass Classic - photo © Bill Warren The 2019 edition of the Florida Bluegrass Classic has come to a close. Friday opened with a songwriter workshop hosted by Ohio’s Brink Brinkman. Brink and his wife

  • Thursday at the Florida Bluegrass Classic

    Nightime jamming at the 2019 Florida Bluegrass Classic - photo © Bill Warren Thursday saw the opening of the mainstage show at the Florida Bluegrass Classic. Vintage country artist David Church opened the day with music from the days of Hank

  • Pete Wernick’s JAM Songbook

     Pete Wernick has given a great deal to the banjo and bluegrass communities over the course of his lengthy career. The author of several top-selling instructional books for banjo, he was also a founding member of Hot Rize, and the

  • Appalachian Road Show at Joe Val

    Appalachian Road Show at the 2019 Joe Val Bluegrass Festival - photo © Dave Hollender This review is a contribution from David Hollender, a Professor in the Ensembles Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is a classically

  • Wednesday at the Florida Bluegrass Classic

    The early arrivals at the Florida Bluegrass Classic did what bluegrassers do best – we ate. The annual Wednesday evening potluck was a huge success. No one went away hungry! The crowd then enjoyed a radio/open mic show hosted by Nashville

  • Sanctuary – Blue Mother Tupelo

    Blue Mother Tupelo might not be bluegrass in the strictest sense, what with a bare boned musical approach that relies on little more than two voices, a robust strum, and a steady stream of natural percussion. If anything, they lean

  • Doyle and Del play Palatka 2019

    The Del McCoury Band at the February 2019 Palatka Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren Whenever Doyle Lawson and Del McCoury appear on the same day at a festival – well just wow! That was the case on Friday at