Kara Kundert

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Kara Kundert

Kara Kundert is the executive director of Bluegrass Pride, a Bay Area-based nonprofit devoted to nurturing and uplifting LGBT voices within the bluegrass and old-time music communities. In her spare time, she also practices mandolin, harmony singing, and amateur American musicology. Her writing can be found in No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, The Forward Roll, and more.

Columns

50 STATES OF FOLK: How Hawaii Created the Modern Country Sound

Kara Kundert Posted On August 14, 2019

Turn your radio to a country music station, and you’re likely to hear the lilting sounds of a pedal steel. It’s a sound iconic to the genre, so ubiquitous that it’s probably permeated your idea of what country music is […]

Feature / Stories

A Revival of our Own: Why We Just Can’t Quit the Man of Constant Sorrow

Kara Kundert Posted On December 19, 2018

Look around you, and you’ll find the world is changing faster than you can blink. Everything from politics to technology to the weather, even, is evolving and metastasizing in a way we’ve never seen before. Those of us in the […]