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Fiddler Bruce Molsky has always been an ardent archivist. A former street kid from Brooklyn, he traded the bright lights of the big city for the rural environs of Virginia at a relatively early age. Over the years he’s gained a respected reputation as an educator, a prolific recording artist — both on his own and with [...]
Old time icon Bruce Molsky and his Molsky's Mountain Drifters have shared a new music video of them performing Fiddler's Dream at The Old-Time Tiki Parlour in Los Angeles. In addition to Bruce on fiddle, the Drifters are Allison de Groot on banjo and Stash Wyslouch on guitar. Check them out as they play a [...]
The Old Tone Roots Music Festival in North Hillsdale, New York just had its first three day festival this last weekend. Old Tone is definitely in my picks for best festivals of the region for sure. It is set in the beautiful and pastoral Taconic mountains on a working farm with Scottish highland cattle surrounding [...]
How about some fine old time music to point us all towards the weekend. Here's Bruce Molsky and his Mountain Drifters doing a bang up job on an old chestnut, Across The Plains of Illinois. Bruce credits finding this version in the playing of Garry Harrison and the New Mules. Garry was a popular Illinois fiddler [...]
Friday at Grey Fox was another action-packed day. One of the hardest things about this festival is deciding what to do with so many great activities happening at the same time. There were workshops on dance, songwriting, and all kinds of instruments. Then there was the huge diversity of musicians performing - too many to name them [...]
On top of dealing with a new baby, Colorado banjo player Jayme Stone has an ambitious new project for next year. Called The Lomax Project, this collaboration of traditional string musicians will travel and record in 2014 in honor of American folklorist and field recordist Alan Lomax, who collected folk music directly from the folks all [...]
Here is another gallery of Frank Baker's images from the 2013 Delaware Valley Bluegras Festival.
West coast mandolin master John Reischman has a new album of instrumental music, which he calls Walk Along John. Like his varied career, the album's 14 named tracks (with one secret) feature the stylistic mix his many admirers have come to expect. There's blazing bluegrass, stately old time melodies, and even reckless, seat-of-the-pants improvgrass. To [...]
Applications are now being accepted for participation in the Acoustic Music Seminar at the 2013 Savannah Music Festival. This five day program for young string players involves hands-on instruction from such noted soloists as Julian Lage, David Grisman, Darol Anger, Jerry Douglas, Bruce Molsky and Rushad Eggleston from April 1-6. The camp is under the direction [...]
Carol Beaugard has an interview scheduled this morning with mega-picker Bruce Molsky on Lonesome Pine RFD. He will join Carol at 11:00 (EDT) on WFDU. Carol will highlight music from Bruce's 2006 Compass release Soon Be Time, plus earlier recordings which showcase his wide-ranging skills on fiddle, banjo, guitar and vocals. They'll also discuss his [...]
