Reviews

Pitney & Meyer Band at the 2024 Pickin' on the Plains bluegrass festival - photo © Cynthia Stamer Thanks to Gary Wiggins for sharing this brief report and a bunch of photos from the 2024 Pickin' on the Plains bluegrass festival

At the end of May, Jacob Jolliff released his latest album, Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Mandolin Mysteries, on Adhyaropa Records. If you are familiar with Jolliff, you have probably listened to Instrumentals Vol 1, released in 2018 when Jacob was a

High Fidelity at the 2024 Salmon Lake Park Gospel Bluegrass Festival - photo courtesy of Salmon Lake The 27th annual Salmon Lake Park Gospel Bluegrass Festival ran last month in Grapeland, TX, one of two yearly festivals at the park. Promoter Julie

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is no stranger to the bluegrass fiddle community. Having been named IBMA's Fiddle Player of the Year in both 2021 and 2022, and being a noted member of the Grammy-winning band, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, her prowess

Milkpan from Kobe University at KazCamp 2024 - photo courtesy of Kaz Inaba Kazuhiro Inaba, one of Japan's premier bluegrass entertainers, has shared a report from his 2024 Bluegrass Camp, held each year in Osaka. He calls it a camp, but

Greensky Bluegrass — Anders Beck (dobro), Michael Arlen Bont (banjo), Dave Bruzza (guitar), Mike Devol (upright bass), and Paul Hoffman (mandolin) — have always managed to keep their music moving forward, taking heed of bluegrass basics while tending to their

Spring Creek 45, a band comprised primarily of Alabama based musicians, came together in March 2023 to record an album of original music with a mostly traditional flavor. The resulting self-titled project on Common Loon Records captures the group's strong

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder at the Tony Rice Memorial Music Fest - photo © G. Nicholas Hancock History repeated itself this Memorial Day weekend at Camp Springs Bluegrass Park near Reidsville, NC, as Ricky Skaggs took the stage for the

Minneapolis band Buffalo Galaxy offers an unlikely combination of seemingly opposing components — that is, the basics of bluegrass with more than a tinge of psychedelia. The band — consisting of Zach Tauer on banjo and vocals, Jake Rohde on

The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri have been presenting their own brand of bluegrass gospel music since 2001. Their ninth studio release, Every Good Path, is another display of the group’s originality. All thirteen songs on this project were either solely written