Telluride 50th anniversary thoughts from the artists who played
Jen Hughes has shared some final thoughts on this year’s historic 50th anniversary of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, taken from brief interviews with 2023 performers Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, Jeremy Garret, Stephen Mougin, and festival goer Greg Nadeau, who has been on site all 50 years! We were able to catch up with some of […]
New Christmas track from Barefoot Movement with Bryan Sutton
The Barefoot Movement has brought their Covers for a Cause campaign to an end for 2022, in a lovely acoustic version of the 1944 classic, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, with the assistance of Bryan Sutton on guitar. Real oldsters among our readers will recall the song’s 1944 debut in the film, Meet Me […]
Bryan Sutton’s Blue Ridge Guitar Camp can finally be held in 2022
Bryan Sutton's Blue Ridge Guitar Camp, announced to great fanfare in 2019 for May 2020, will actually be able to take place in 2022 after two years of postponements due to COVID restrictions. The Camp, hosted at the Brevard Music Center near Asheville, NC, is scheduled for June 1-5 this year. If that name, or [...] Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021
Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021 - photo © Dave Hollender Our friend Dave Hollender was at the 2021 FreshGrass festival in North Adams, MA last month, and captured some great photos of Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart show. Performing with Béla on the show were Sierra Hull on mandolin, Bryan Sutton on [...] Me and His Guitars with Bryan Sutton and Friends remembers Tony Rice
Since the death of Tony Rice on Christmas day, the bluegrass and acoustic music world has reacted with a combination of shock and reverence. Rice had been a superstar in the music for so long, that even after his retirement several years ago, we had continued to collectively enjoy his contributions as though he had [...] Introducing Bryan Sutton’s Blue Ridge Guitar Camp
Great news for flatpickers! Following on the two very successful years of the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck, The Brevard Music Center in western North Carolina has announced a companion effort for acoustic guitarists. The inaugural Blue Ridge Guitar Camp will take place in May of 2020, under the direction of flatpack [...] Skaggs’ guitar army unleashed on Grey Fox
On Friday night at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Ricky Skaggs took advantage of the fact that three of his former guitarists were at the festival, and brought them all up for one big six string thrash. Of course, he's only had four guitar pickers since returning to the bluegrass world, but what pickers they [...] Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars – Dwight Yoakam
Can any song be turned into a bluegrass number? And furthermore, should it? Those are the questions I found myself asking as I listened to Dwight Yoakam’s new album, with the tongue-in-cheek title, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars.... Yoakam lined up a backing band full of bluegrass music’s top talent and (unlike several other nineties country stars [...] RockyGrass 2016 – Day 1
The 44th annual RockyGrass festival was held last weekend in Lyons, CO. Surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains, fans enjoyed the best in bluegrass for three straight days. These are my reflections and opinions as a first time RockyGrass attendee. RockyGrass!! One of the items on my “Bluegrass Bucket List” was finally able to be [...] Old time and bluegrass artists celebrate the Smokies
The Great Smoky Mountains Association, a non-profit group who promote the preservation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, are in the process of preparing a new recording in honor of the park system's centennial this year. On Top Of Old Smoky, due in August 2016, will feature new performances from a gaggle of top bluegrass, [...] 