Wortmann Brothers

Our German bluegrass buddies, The Wortmann Brothers, have shared another of their clever songs, played in their own distinctive primitive bluegrass style. The brothers, Frank on guitar and mandolin and Ulrich on banjo, have been involved with bluegrass since they were

Sometimes, all it takes is determined devotion to live a life that finds meaning in music. That's what it took for the Wortmann Brothers, Frank and Ulrich, to turn their attention to bluegrass. Early on, the German siblings shared a

Here's something fun to start your first weekend in March. Our friends, The Wortmann Brothers, have released a new video in their series of bluegrass classics translated into German. As always, they infuse their unique Continental humor into the translation, and

Here's some bluegrass fun from The Wortman Brothers of Germany. They have devised a computer game featuring themselves using MIT's Scratch programming language. The object of Bluegrass Battle is to maneuver the two bluegrass musicians, representing the Wortmanns, to safety. Game play involves

Here's a somber sounding new video from Germany. It's a new release from The Wortmann Brothers, featuring Ulrich Wortmann on banjo and vocals.   Watching the video for the first time, with its gray, gritty industrial scenes and lonesome banjo accompaniment, I thought

It is becoming more and more common for bluegrass artists in non-English speaking parts of the world to write and sing songs in their native tongues. In the earliest days of bluegrass reaching beyond North America, most students of the music