WTVF

Picking to learn, these kids are carrying on a Tennessee bluegrass tradition

GRANVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's a style of music that includes a stand-up bass, the banjo, the mandolin, the guitar, and the fiddle. It has been passed down for generations. Now, someone is taking ...
Hartford Courant

At the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival in Goshen, the picking goes on nearly round the clock

Phyliss Donnelly started playing the mandolin five years ago, the year of her first Podunk. She’s returned to the Connecticut bluegrass festival every year since, improving her mandolin-picking along ...
thedailytimes

Bluegrass wunderkind: Blount County's Wyatt Ellis gets a Sierra Hull assist to take his picking to the next level

It’s a glass-half-full way of looking at the COVID-19 pandemic, but both 29-year-old bluegrass standout Sierra Hull and 11-year-old Blount County boy Wyatt Ellis agree: If it wasn’t for the virus, ...
The Aspen Times

Spring into Bluegrass at Steve’s

CARBONDALE ” Pick up tips on picking, or just listen this weekend at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale. Shop owner Steve Standiford has lined up a slate of touring musicians and local talent for a ...
The Saratogian

Bluegrass legend Frank Wakefield, 79, returns to the stage with new album at The Parting Glass

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Frank Wakefield, long considered to be one of the bluegrass greats, celebrates the release of his new CD on the Patuxent Music label, “Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker and Friends” in ...