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Rounder Records has released a music video for Boston Town, the opening track on their upcoming album from Della Mae. It's nostalgic union-organizing song written and sung by Celia Woodsmith. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="63026"] The new album, simply titled Della Mae, is due for release on May 12. Fans can get a copy of Boston [...]
Della Mae has announced the newest addition to their group. Zoe Guigueno, formerly with Joy Kills Sorrow, has joined the group on bass. She takes the spot vacated by Shelby Means at the end of last year's touring season. Zoe will make her first appearance with the Dellas this weekend at the Joe Val Festival [...]
Shelby Means, who has been playing bass with Della Mae this past two and a half years, has announced this weekend that she will be leaving the group. She will accompany the Dellas on their upcoming State Department tour as her final hurrah. Her absence during the band's performance on the IBMA Awards Show and [...]
While much of the world's attention was focused on Brazil earlier this month, Della Mae was touring the country spreading the bluegrass message on behalf of the US government. Mandolinist Jenni Lyn Gardner sent this brief report on their activities. In the midst of the excitement of the World Cup games, we headed to Brazil [...]
Nope... not what you think. At least if you thought it might be a quasi-bluegrass cover of Cyndi Lauper's 1983 mega-hit. But this video does pick up on the theme of that song. Dellas Shelby and Jenni Lyn broke out into an interpretive go-go dance on the picnic tables in front of a gas-n-go somewhere in [...]
The talented ladies of Della Mae (would that be Della Maes or Dellas Mae?) have been providing a travelogue of their European tour here at Bluegrass Today. This final installment comes from guitarist/vocalist Celia Woodsmith. Euro Tour 2014: 12 Countries, 18 days, 13 shows, 3,722 Kilometers, and at least 6 forms of transportation. Our road cases have a [...]
The talented ladies of Della Mae (would that be Della Maes or Dellas Mae?) will be providing a travelogue of their European tour here at Bluegrass Today. This second installment comes from fiddler Kimber Ludiker. Today is the second day this week that we will have eaten breakfast, lunch, and dinner in three different countries. A few [...]
The talented ladies of Della Mae (would that be Della Maes or Dellas Mae?) will be providing a travelogue of their European tour here at Bluegrass Today. This first installment comes from mandolinist Jenni Lyn Gardner. Hello Bluegrass Today Readers. I hope you are all well! I am currently writing from the bunk bed in [...]
The folks at Yahoo Music caught up with Della Mae during last month's South By Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, TX. The ladies recorded a pair of live performance videos, and this brief interview at Austin's Brazos Hall. Watch the other Della Mae videos at Yahoo Music.
Bluegrass music is often praised for its driving rhythm and fast, hot picking – particularly on the banjo. However, there’s another side to bluegrass ingenuity, often with a more laidback sound, that fully embraces bluegrass music’s connections to jazz and folk music. Steep Ravine, a new quartet from the San Francisco area, has a tight [...]
