• Dr. Banjo in the house

    Hot Rize is in the midst of their fall reunion tour, their first since 1996 when Bryan Sutton was welcomed into the band on guitar....

  • Two big DVD debuts for Sierra Hull

    Sierra Hull, the diminutive song bird and fiery mando-monster, celebrated a pair of milestones last week. March 16 saw not only the release date of...

  • Sierra Hull starts new CD next week

    Sierra Hull is having an eventful freshman year in college. She entered the Berklee College of Music last fall with the promise and pressure that comes...

  • Sierra Hull mandolin DVD from AcuTab

    AcuTab Publications has announced March 16 as the release date for their newest instructional DVD, Secrets Songs & Tunes by Sierra Hull. It offers four...

  • Northern Lights go out for good

    Northern Lights has been the premier progressive bluegrass band in northeastern Massachusetts for the past 35 years. Other than a brief hiatus from 1977-1982, the...

  • Sierra Hull mandolin DVD from AcuTab

    AcuTab Publications has announced March 16 as the release date for their newest instructional DVD, Secrets Songs & Tunes by Sierra Hull. It offers four...

  • Robot banjo – who knew?

    Many thanks to David Hollender, upright bass and banjo instructor at Berklee College of Music, for turning me on to Ragtime West, makers of some...

  • Sierra Hull on Blue Plate Special

    Young mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull has started classes at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but is still touring with her band, Highway 111....

  • Folk Arts Quartet

    We've commented a number of times about the fertile acoustic string music scene in and around Boston, MA. It is fueled in large part by...

  • Sierra Hull is Boston bound

    We had a piece up on Monday about Sarah Jarosz and her decision to attend college at Boston's New England Conservatory. But she's not the...