MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
Early afternoon set on Saturday was powerful and they got everyone on their feet dancing.
Twenty-eight years after it launched, the annual MerleFest, in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, is now halfway into another year. I arrived midday on Friday — day two of the event — just in time to catch Portland, Oregon-based old-time group Foghorn Stringband. […]
While I have never participated in a St. Patrick’s Day parade or drunk that green beer that pops up one day a year, I must admit Ireland provided one of the cornerstones of music in America. Direct lines can be […]
IBMA World of Bluegrass, 2014, Raleigh, NC
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