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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 [...]
Portland's Foghorn Stringboard has just released a clever music video for Columbus Stockade Blues, one of the tracks on their current Devil In The Seat CD. It finds the band all over Portland, laying down the old time groove in antique stores, behind the bar, in a clothing shop, and even in somebody's kitchen. Residents and regular [...]
Most bands practicing old time music these days fall into one of two categories: strict traditionalists, whose albums sound as if they could have been recorded at the Bristol Sessions, and those who take the stripped down sound of the old time style and add in more modern touches from other genres. With their latest [...]
There might not be more aptly named pickers at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass this year than the Foghorn Stringband. At Monday night’s showcase performance, the quartet’s fiddle tunes on steroids cut through the haze of the Nashville Convention Center ballroom and cleared the heads of listeners for the nontraditional acts to follow. With newcomer guitarist [...]
