Bluegrass in New York

Rest in Peace Doc Watson

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:20:40 -0400

Thinking of Doc and wishing him a speedy recovery!

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:34:11 -0400

Thinking of Doc and wishing him a speedy recovery!

Check out this video of the Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny...

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:47:44 -0400

Check out this video of the Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny with Michael Daves at the Brooklyn Folk Festival last night. More music all day today- doors open at 11:45am on Saturday! Info and lineup at http://www.brooklynfolkfest.com/events.

Today’s show will feature Jackson Lynch, the East River String Band, M Shanghai String Band, The Calamity Janes, Blind Boy Paxton, The Little Brothers and many more!

Old Crow Medicine Show announce summer tour, show in New York...

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:21:59 -0400

Old Crow Medicine Show announce summer tour, show in New York at Central Park’s Summer Stage on August 6th!

Showtime: 6:30 PM Price: $35/$40 Gates open at 5:30 PM.

With Very Special Guests: The Lumineers & Milk Carton Kids. All Ages Show.

johmsnowing: Louvin Brothers, River of Jordan0

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:55:32 -0400

johmsnowing:

Louvin Brothers, River of Jordan0

mandoisland: Veteran pickers The Seldom Scene put the blues in...

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:53:18 -0400

mandoisland:

Veteran pickers The Seldom Scene put the blues in bluegrass on this performance from the 2010 Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival. For more on this tune, visit www.secondcousincurly.com.

more videos in my blog:

Sittin’ On Top of the World – From Blues to Bluegrass

Via My Old Kentucky Blog… A new free track from the...

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:35:00 -0400

Via My Old Kentucky Blog… A new free track from the upcoming new album, No Separation, from Brooklyn neo folksters Spirit Family Reunion! The band is on tour this summer, next playing New York at the Mercury Lounge on June 15th. More: http://www.myoldkentuckyblog.com/?p=29351

My uncle is the guitar player- wish I had been in that little...

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:45:37 -0400

My uncle is the guitar player- wish I had been in that little country church for this show!

drawlmag: Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Country Girl”

Sat, 12 May 2012 11:36:14 -0400

drawlmag:

Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Country Girl”

Neil Young sets Americana on fire....

Sat, 12 May 2012 11:35:11 -0400

Neil Young sets Americana on fire....

The Economist covers Merlefest, bluegrass

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:00:43 -0400

The Economist covers Merlefest, bluegrass:

“Some still like the old ways best. For 25 years, MerleFest has drawn fans of roots music—a broad term encompassing numerous genres of American folk music—to the charming little town of Wilkesboro, in North Carolina’s Brushy Mountains. This year around 80,000 attended the four-day event. Headline acts included Los Lobos, a band from East Los Angeles that blends rock and American folk with Mexican genres such as norteño; Bela Fleck, a banjo player and composer whose music sounded like a marriage of bluegrass and the Grateful Dead; and the Punch Brothers, a talented young band comprising the traditional five bluegrass instruments but with an extraordinarily wide range (their bluegrass version of Radiohead’s “Kid A” is, against all expectations, revelatory: by using a bowed bass for the vocal part, they highlight that in the original version, Thom Yorke was less a singer than just another band member, using his muffled and electrified voice as just another instrument).”

July 4th- put it on your calendar today…. Madison Square...

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:08:32 -0400

July 4th- put it on your calendar today…. Madison Square Park announces a great roots music show as part of their 10th anniversary programming.

July 4th, 2012
Noam Pikelny and Friends I 3pm
Virtuosic banjo player Noam Pikelny headlines MSPC’s 10-year anniversary July 4 celebration with his band of friends including Aoife O’ Donovan (Crooked Still), Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers), Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) and Mark Schatz (Claire Lynch Band). Part of the acclaimed bluegrass group Punch Brothers and winner of the first Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music, Pikelny is, “a player of unlimited range and astonishing precision,” (Steve Martin).

The Sweetback Sisters
The Sweetback Sisters Emily Miller and Zara Bode may not be blood relations, but their precise, family-style harmonies recall the best of country music from the Everlys to The Judds, as well as the spirited rockabilly energy of Wanda Jackson, one of the band’s role models. Like the artists they admire, the Sweetbacks are concerned with the traditional subjects of heartbreak, revenge, remorse and staying strong in the face of relationships gone wrong, albeit with a contemporary sensibility. The Boston Globe says, “If you think the concepts of hipster Brooklynites and classic country music are mutually exclusive, allow us to introduce you to this swinging sextet. Fronted by the closely harmonizing duo of Zara Bode and Emily Miller, the zingy group is simultaneously reverent of tradition and contemporaneously cheeky.”

Spuyten Duyvil
“Spuyten Duyvil,” Dutch slang for “in spite of the devil” as well as the creek connecting the Harlem and Hudson Rivers, is a new band of eight old souls playing and singing their hearts out. Led by husband and wife duo Mark Miller (guitar, Bouzouki, vocals) and Beth Jamie Kaufman (vocals) they lean on the history, folklore and sounds of the last 100 years to craft an energetic bluesy, bluegrass, jug band, Old Timey influenced force. Featuring guitar, dobro, fiddle, mandolin and lap steel, harmonica, drums, bass and rich multi-part harmonies, Spuyten Duyvil is, “one of the best bands to emerge on the Americana scene in the last year,” (John Platt, WFUV).

bluegrassgospelblog: Country gospel from The Louvin...

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:00:40 -0400

bluegrassgospelblog:

Country gospel from The Louvin Brothers

“If We Forget God”

jugtownradio: BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD (“The Minstrel Of The...

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:58:00 -0400

jugtownradio: BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD (“The Minstrel Of The Appalachians”) entertaining a fan.

Everett Lilly, mandolin player for Flatt & Scruggs and bluegrass pioneer, passes away

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:37:07 -0400

Everett Lilly, mandolin player for Flatt & Scruggs and bluegrass pioneer, passes away

Six Deadly Venoms on Court Street! Catch guitarist Rick Snell...

Mon, 07 May 2012 21:54:56 -0400

Six Deadly Venoms on Court Street! Catch guitarist Rick Snell and other Venoms at Mona’s Bluegrass Jam on Mondays.

This afternoon in Williamsburg, you can attend a great Country...

Sun, 06 May 2012 14:20:21 -0400

This afternoon in Williamsburg, you can attend a great Country Music Happy Hour at The Grand Victory, 245 Grand Street. Charles Watlington will be playing his favorite Country Records, and The Golden Bones will be playing some stripped down sets for the occasion.

Val Mindel and Debra Clifford have teamed up to create the...

Sat, 05 May 2012 12:34:40 -0400

Val Mindel and Debra Clifford have teamed up to create the Traveling Old Time Music School. More information here: http://oldtimemusicschool.com/

countryandwestern: jugtownradio: HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIE...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:24:50 -0400

countryandwestern: jugtownradio: HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIE NELSON! 79!

Chocolate Drops, Abigail Washburn, Ebony Hillbillies to play Summerstage

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:01:24 -0400

The Summerstage series is coming together well, and will feature a number of shows that should be of interest to readers of bluegrassnyc, such as the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Abigail Washburn, and the Ebony Hillbillies.

Put these on your calendar- some shows free!

DEER TICK / JONNY CORNDAWG

6.21.2012 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Red Hook Park

The music of Deer Tick fits loosely into the alternative/country category, but lead singer John McCauley’s rough, raw, and ragged vocals bring a wealth of rock and grunge influences to the band’s sound. …

GUTHRIE FAMILY REUNION CELEBRATING WOODY’S 100TH

7.15.2012 - 4.15.2012 | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Central Park

For this special show, Guthrie will offer a rare and special tribute to his dad, Woody Guthrie, in celebration of Woody’s 100th birthday….

THE EBONY HILLBILLIES (Two dates)

8.2.2012 | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Van Cortlandt (Red Steps)

8.6.2012 | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Courtney Callendar

As one of the last black string bands in the U.S., and the only one currently based in NYC-the Hillbillies keep an important legacy alive with a rootsy, homegrown style that was a key element in the genesis of All American Music-Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Rock and Roll and Country….

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS / BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO / ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Presented in Association with: Museum for African Art

8.11.2012 | 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Central Park

In 2005, three young musicians decided to travel every Thursday night to sit in the home of legendary fiddler Joe Thompson for a musical jam session. When the three students decided to form the Carolina Chocolate Drops, they did it mostly as tribute to Thompson, performing his music in dance halls. …