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Matt Glaser has been an important figure in the world of bluegrass and old time fiddle since the 1970s. At that time, he was part of the experimental string music scene in New York and New England, recording with fellow envelope-pushers like Tony Trischka, Andy Statman, and Russ Barrenburg for the then nascent Rounder Records. [...]
The Berklee College of Music in Boston hosted Del McCoury on September 12, both for a special performance by the Del McCoury Band, and to present him with the first of the school's American Roots Master Award. Berklee's Matt Glaser, who directs their American Roots Music Program, presented the award. Here's a couple of photos from [...]
Del McCoury at RockyGrass 2019 - photo by Kevin Slick The Berklee College of Music is set to honor Del McCoury with an American Roots Master award when he performs with his band in Boston on September 12. Despite having been founded in 1945 for the study of jazz music, a new popular style at the [...]
Meeting as students in the American Roots Music Program at the Berklee College of Music, four young women from the US, Canada, and Sweden have formed a new roots/Americana aggregation which they call The Goodbye Girls. The Girls are Lena Jonsson on fiddle, Allison de Groot on banjo, Brittany Karlson on bass, and Molly Tuttle [...]
Master mandolinist Alan Bibey spent the early part of the week at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Masachusetts. He had been invited up as part of the school's program to bring top touring professionals to work with students in their Traditional String principal for mandolin, guitar, fiddle and banjo. This relatively new program [...]
Sierra Hull has been invited to play during Boston's First Night festival on New Year's Eve at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music. She completed the school's two year diploma program in 2012, and has been touted as a Berklee success story ever since - and rightly so. Berklee has morphed from a jazz [...]
Violinist Matt Glaser, former chair of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music, has received the Artist Teacher Award from the prestigious American String Teachers Association. Especially notable is the fact that Glaser is the first non-classical instructor to be so named. And he is not only a non-classical performer and teacher, he is [...]
This evening (2/12), the Berklee College of Music in Boston will host its 7th annual Mandolin Mashup. It was created by the late John McGann when he joined the faculty at Berklee in 2006, to highlight his most promising students. The Mandolin Mashup tradition will continue beyond John's passing in 2012, and tonight's show is [...]
It wasn't two weeks ago that we offered our review of the new album from Chasing Blue, Low Valley. The young Boston-based band won high praise from our reviewer (yours truly) for the quality of their songwriting, and the strong lead vocals of Suzy Oleson and Mike Reese. Not to deny the rest of the [...]
Talented young bands seem to pop up like weeds these days. Every time I turn around, there is another CD from a group that appears to have come out of nowhere, at least on a national level. Just such a band is Chasing Blue, a quartet that met during a bluegrass ensemble class at the [...]
