Tag: bluegrass
The Savannah Music Festival: in the spring of the year musicians from as far away as Mail, Mongolia, and Ireland and as nearby as New Orleans, Atlanta, and Nashville …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
Perhaps one of your thoughts for the new year is to travel more, explore more. Maybe you have specific plans in mind, maybe you’re not there yet, or perhaps …
Spring flowers, spring showers — and spring roadtrips. Whether your spring travels find you crossing wide open lands, climbing mountain roads, exploring a new or returning to a well …
Burlington, Vermont. Auburn, Alabama. Nashville, Tennessee at The Grand Ole Opry, on a cruise to Alaska, at a mountain winery in California, at the Outer Banks of North Carolina, …
Bluegrass. It’s a music native to North America, yet formed out of sounds and rhythms and ideas and stories and through instruments that people carried with them from Ireland, …
The fiddle is one of the world’s more portable instruments. It is also one whose sound is often heard as recalling the human voice, and certainly often found in …
Savannah, Georgia: you might think of historic architecture, Civil War stories, southern food, river front shopping, a thriving visual arts community. Also think music: Savannah hosts one of the …
Country music is a storytelling music. At times that telling of stories goes along with glitz and flash and high powered special effects and stage shows. At other times, …
It stands to reason that when Robin and Linda Williams got around to the idea of making a retrospective album, they’d find an unusual way to tackle it. The …
Bluegrass. When the music people brought with them from England, Ireland, and Scotland met the music people carried along from many parts of Africa in the highlands of the …
(Part of the Austin Rocks series of posts by a local about things to do and see in Austin, Texas) When you have young kids, you don’t spend much …
