Legendary singer/songwriter Peter Rowan and Italian bluegrass band Red Wine have linked up to play some prestigious dates in Europe this month. This working relationship goes back about 20 years as Red Wine’s banjo player Silvio Ferretti recollects …… "First time we played with Peter Rowan - sort of an on-stage jam - was in [...]
Peter Rowan has paid his dues, spending more than 50 years in and around bluegrass, sharing the stage with everyone from Bill Monroe and Jerry Garcia. Now, he’s paying tribute. His new CD on Rebel Records is called Carter Stanley’s Eyes. But the title cut isn’t the only nod to the man many consider the [...]
Peter Rowan with The Travelin' McCourys at the Sweetwater Music Hall - photo by Dorothy St. Claire Bluegrass veteran Peter Rowan made his first appearance on stage since a brief December illness when The Travelin' McCourys played recently at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA. Fans of the 75 year old performer expressed concern when Peter [...]
Carter Stanley has been an inspiration to many in the bluegrass field. For Peter Rowan, that influence has simmered for more than half a century. The impression that Rowan was left with after meeting Carter Stanley for the first time has been translated into in original song by Rowan, The Light in Carter Stanley’s Eyes, [...]
Peter Rowan at the August 2017 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker If you've visited the Peter Rowan web site recently, you'll notice that all the dates he has booked for the early part of 2018 are marked as cancelled. Concerned about his health, we contacted his representative and were told that indeed, [...]
Ronnie McCoury at Old Settler's Music Festival (April 2017) - photo by Tom Dunning 2017 was the 30th Anniversary event for the Old Settler's Music Festival in the Texas hill country west of Austin. They offer four days of music, blending bluegrass, folk, and Americana groups which occurred this year April 20-23. Here are some [...]
For his next project, Peter Rowan has chosen to focus on the music of his adopted home state on My Aloha. The one time Blue Grass Boy has been spending as much time as he can while not touring in the continental US in Hawaii, where he has become quite fond of the native folk [...]
Thanks to Bob Compere for this batch of photos from last weekend's Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cookoff in Farmer's Branch, TX, just north of Dallas.
On This Day … Starting on Friday, September 3, 1965, the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival, in Fincastle, Virginia, took place. "Wow, hard to believe it's been fifty years ago ... I was there for both of Carlton's first multi-day festival in 1965 and 1966." (Gary Henderson) The first event, held during Labor Day weekend, was [...]
Texas songwriter and singer, Robert Earl Keen, has decided to go grass for his next album, Happy Prisoner - The Bluegrass Sessions. Though Keen has largely hewed close to the folk/Americana realm, this album marks a departure both in that it features all bluegrass songs, and that it is all covers as opposed to his own [...]
Legendary singer/songwriter Peter Rowan and Italian bluegrass band Red Wine have linked up to play some prestigious dates in Europe this month. This working relationship goes back about 20 years as Red Wine’s banjo player Silvio Ferretti recollects …… "First time we played with Peter Rowan - sort of an on-stage jam - was in [...] 
Peter Rowan has paid his dues, spending more than 50 years in and around bluegrass, sharing the stage with everyone from Bill Monroe and Jerry Garcia. Now, he’s paying tribute. His new CD on Rebel Records is called Carter Stanley’s Eyes. But the title cut isn’t the only nod to the man many consider the [...] 
Peter Rowan with The Travelin' McCourys at the Sweetwater Music Hall - photo by Dorothy St. Claire Bluegrass veteran Peter Rowan made his first appearance on stage since a brief December illness when The Travelin' McCourys played recently at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA. Fans of the 75 year old performer expressed concern when Peter [...] 
Carter Stanley has been an inspiration to many in the bluegrass field. For Peter Rowan, that influence has simmered for more than half a century. The impression that Rowan was left with after meeting Carter Stanley for the first time has been translated into in original song by Rowan, The Light in Carter Stanley’s Eyes, [...] 
Peter Rowan at the August 2017 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker If you've visited the Peter Rowan web site recently, you'll notice that all the dates he has booked for the early part of 2018 are marked as cancelled. Concerned about his health, we contacted his representative and were told that indeed, [...] 
Ronnie McCoury at Old Settler's Music Festival (April 2017) - photo by Tom Dunning 2017 was the 30th Anniversary event for the Old Settler's Music Festival in the Texas hill country west of Austin. They offer four days of music, blending bluegrass, folk, and Americana groups which occurred this year April 20-23. Here are some [...] 
For his next project, Peter Rowan has chosen to focus on the music of his adopted home state on My Aloha. The one time Blue Grass Boy has been spending as much time as he can while not touring in the continental US in Hawaii, where he has become quite fond of the native folk [...] 
Thanks to Bob Compere for this batch of photos from last weekend's Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cookoff in Farmer's Branch, TX, just north of Dallas. 
On This Day … Starting on Friday, September 3, 1965, the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival, in Fincastle, Virginia, took place. "Wow, hard to believe it's been fifty years ago ... I was there for both of Carlton's first multi-day festival in 1965 and 1966." (Gary Henderson) The first event, held during Labor Day weekend, was [...] 
Texas songwriter and singer, Robert Earl Keen, has decided to go grass for his next album, Happy Prisoner - The Bluegrass Sessions. Though Keen has largely hewed close to the folk/Americana realm, this album marks a departure both in that it features all bluegrass songs, and that it is all covers as opposed to his own [...] 