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Darol Anger, who first came to the attention of the bluegrass and acoustic music worlds through his work on fiddle with the original David Grisman Quintet, has been named as an associate professor at the Berklee School of Music. Since his

Darol Anger, who first came to the attention of the bluegrass and acoustic music worlds through his work on fiddle with the original David Grisman Quintet, has been named as an associate professor at the Berklee School of Music. Since his

We've written previously about the new American Roots Music Program at The Berklee College of Music in Boston, which got its official kickoff earlier this month. Mark O'Connor spent a week on campus conducting workshops, master classes and interacting with

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 of the most amazing musical creations I have ever seen. The company is the brainchild of

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 the number of prestigious and highly selective music schools in the area, and a willingness

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 only talented, young singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the bluegrass world headed for Boston in

Béla Fleck made another of his periodic visits to The Berklee College Of Music in Boston last week, a visit chronicled on the school's web site. He was in Boston as a part of the publicity tour for his documentary film,

Matt Glaser has been a fixture in the string music scene in the northeastern US since he was in his 20s. As a young man he recorded and performed with other acoustic string crazies like Tony Trischka, Marty Cutler and Andy

Berklee Today, the quarterly alumni magazine of The Berklee College Of Music, has a feature on the school's embrace of country, bluegrass and Americana music as part of their instructional program. Written by Christopher John Treacy, and entitled Out Of The

Berklee College of Music has been showing a lot of interest in acoustic, stringed music in the last few years. The formation of the acoustic string principal at the school has led to recruiting forays at IBMA and other bluegrass