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Molly Tuttle has been turning heads in the bluegrass and acoustic music world for quite some time, since she was a teen banjo picker with her family band in California. Now a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and still quite a young lady, Molly has a new album, Rise, that focuses [...]
Sometimes when two songwriters get together to collaborate, the result is more than anyone expected. That was the case recently when Melody Walker and Molly Tuttle, both recent Nashville transplants from California and both award-winning writers and artists, sat down together. The result is Bigger Than This, an elegant but powerful anthem about setting aside [...]
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 [...]
John Mailander is the latest bright light in the fiddle world to emerge from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he has studied under the tutelage of Darol Anger and developed into an adventurous and extremely capable player. His debut solo album, Walking Distance, finds him firmly in the mainstream of contemporary bluegrass and [...]
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 [...]
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) has announced six finalists for their inaugural $10,000 band contest to be held during the FreshGrass festival September 20-22 in North Adams, MA. The bands fall within the festival's targeted demographic of bluegrass and roots music, with a number who have been previously profiled at Bluegrass Today. The [...]
On Monday we had a review of Endless Ocean, the new CD from The Tuttles with A.J. Lee. Today, we have a couple of videos where they show their stuff live. The band includes Jack Tuttle with his three talented children (Molly, Sullivan, and Michael), and their close friend, A.J. Lee. Molly, the oldest of the [...]
Molly Tuttle and her father, Jack, have been selected as finalists in the annual Duet Contest on A Prairie Home Companion. They, and the other 5 finalists, will make the trek this weekend to St. Paul, MN to compete on the October 20 program, airing on hundreds of NPR affiliate stations across the US. Both perform [...]
This past weekend was a big one for bluegrass at the Berklee College of Music. Not only did the school award Alison Krauss an honorary doctorate, and feature some of their talented bluegrass students and recent graduates in the big pre-commencement concert on Friday night, Saturday saw one of our youngest bluegrass stars, Sierra Hull, [...]
Molly Tuttle, she of The Tuttles with AJ Lee, took the top prize in the General Category of the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at last weekend's MerleFest in North Wilkesboro, NC. In addition to performing with her family band based in California, Molly is a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She [...]
