Bluegrass Beyond Borders

Canada's CR5 — short for County Road 5 Bluegrass — resides in the backroads of Eastern Ontario, in a town called Lyndhurst, although the original band members all lived in or near the tiny hamlet of McIntosh Mills. The name

Canada's Rosemary Siemens has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious venues, and for several auspicious occasions as well. A five-time Covenant Award-winning violinist and vocalist, she's taken the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, made four appearances at Carnegie

It’s always enlightening, if sometimes unexpected, to find artists inspired and informed by bluegrass in places one would never think to encounter it. Indeed, India is, at least to most people's way of thinking, more associated with music of eastern origin,

Spooky Ride, a band based out of Montreal in Canada, isn't at all as ominous as their title may imply. The brainchild of dobro player Pascal Richard, the group's aim has always been to bridge the divide between traditional bluegrass

Fiddler, clawhammer banjo picker, guitarist, and singer Kate Lissaur grew up in Cockeysville, Maryland, but now makes her home in Frome, Somerset in the southwest of England.  "I got here by way of Scotland, where I lived for nine formative years

The Langan Band pay no heed to any particular parameters, and have maintained that mantra for some 15 years. The band, which consists of John Langan on guitar, Alastair Caplin on fiddle, and Dave Tunstall on bass, formed after finding

When a band takes its name from a generalized genre, it would seem to reflect both confidence and credibility. Given the accolades accrued by Stacja Folk — a handle that's loosely translated from the Polish as "Folk Station" —  those

South Korea's Country GongBang demonstrates that the basics of bluegrass aren't limited exclusively to the realms of the western world. Since we last profiled the band, they received the 2023 IBMA International Band Performance Grant, a credit to their credibility

Switzerland and Appalachia may not have much in common, but they do share a similarity when in comes to their higher elevations. So it hardly seems a surprise that the band known as Caludo found common cause when it came

Though their handle sounds like the title of a crime novel, in truth, A Murder in Mississippi is a six-piece band based in Ghent, Belgium that specializes in roots, bluegrass, folk, blues, and traditional Irish music. Yet they manage to