The famed Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall in downtown Los Olivos returns from an eleven-month hiatus with a special Americana/Bluegrass concert by Peter Feldmann and the Very Lonesome Boys Trio. The ...

In 2015, Jon Stickley brought in revered jazz drummer Dave King to produce his next bluegrass album. He didn’t bargain for the profound change ahead. Until that point, the Jon Stickley Trio mixed ...

Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

These are two live bluegrass discs, recorded 20 years apart, and under very different circumstances. Guitarist Red Allen, who died last year, possessed a clear yet earthy, soulful voice of striking ...

Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...

With warmer weather, it may seem to be time for bluegrass. Actually, though, it’s always time. Remington Ryde not only plays festivals and country fairs, but performs year round as a full-time job.

A bluegrass band and Johnny Cash tribute are part of the remaining Ramona Concert Association lineup in February and April. John Reischman and the Jaybirds, who are well known in the bluegrass and ...

Third Coast Bluegrass is a band made up of five longtime friends — Marc Edelstein on bass, Ken Finkel on banjo, Peter Knupfer on fiddle, Don Stiernberg on mandolin and Jerry Wicentowski on lead vocals ...

That every one of these CDs comes from an independent label drives home the fact that bluegrass was an “alternative” music genre long before “alt” became a marketing niche. Even though the music’s ...