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11/12/2023

Happy Birthday to one fine bass player, Steph Landis of Cumberland Honey

08/12/2023

Folks back home in Central Pa., you don't want to miss this one. Had a chance to see Liam Calloway Purcell a few years ago at Grey Fox. He was still in high school at the time. We remember a particularly smoking jam with Billy Strings sitting in. Will be interesting to see/hear his development musically after he's been studying at Berklee. Especially in a cool little venue like the West Shore Theater.

Winter Tour Dates are here! 📣🎶🎉 See you soon everybody!

01.04 // Charleston, SC // The Charleston Pour House
01.05 // Bloomingdale, GA // Randy Wood's Picking Parlor
01.06 // Tallahassee, FL // Blue Tavern
01.11 // Nashville, TN // The Station Inn
01.12 // Cleveland, TN // Pokey's Music Hall
01.13 // Mt. Airy, NC // The Earl Theatre
02.15 // Black Mountain, NC // White Horse Black Mountain
02.16 // Boone, NC // Boone Saloon
02.18 // Asheville, NC // Ice Bridges Fest
02.20 // Bloomington, IN // The Bishop
02.22 // Bellevue, WA // Wintergrass Festival
02.23 // Bellevue, WA // Wintergrass Festival
03.12 // Cambridge, MA // Bluegrass Tuesdays
03.14 // Worthington, MA // Goldenrod Country Inn
03.15 // Hamden, CT // Guitartown
03.16 // New Cumberland, PA // West Shore Theatre

Additional Dates and Support Announcements soon.
Tickets and info at canemillroad.com

08/12/2023

Happy Birthday to Dre Anders Music

07/12/2023

Going to be another fine weekend in Cumberland!

The moment you've all been waiting for 🎉 The DelFest 2024 initial linup! We're so excited to see all these incredible artists at DelFest next year. GA on sale soon. Stay tuned for more to come!

The Del McCoury Band
The Travelin' McCourys
Greensky Bluegrass
Old Crow Medicine Show
Sierra Ferrell
Marty Stuart
Leftover Salmon
Yonder Mountain String Band
Sam Grisman Project
Sister Sadie
Mr Sun
Big Richard Band
Dre Anders Music
East Nash Grass
The Dirty Grass Players
Armchair Boogie
Joe Craven

05/12/2023

It's another banjo picker birthday. Happy Birthday to our buddy Mark Rast, of Colebrook Road

03/12/2023

We don't believe much in astrology, but there seems to be something about being born today and being a fine five-string picker. Happy Birthday Derek Kretzer, of The Plate Scrapers

03/12/2023

Graham Sharp's birthday is a good time to look back at our conversation with him this summer when Steep Canyon Rangers played Longs Park in Lancaster

Graham Sharp, of the Steep Canyon Rangers, talks to the Brewgrass Chronicle

03/12/2023

Happy Birthday Graham Sharp, of the Steep Canyon Rangers

30/11/2023

Emcee, mandolin picker, singer . . . today's birthday gal does it all! Happy Birthday Lisa Kay Howard-Hughes!

Our favorite emcee, Lisa Kay Howard-Hughes

28/11/2023

Birthday salutations to our buddy Mark Elliott Schimick, of Songs From The Road Band

28/11/2023

Sarasota's Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center is a great little venue to see a show at. It is not such a great place to photograph a show, though. It is a small, intimate, seated listening room with few spots to shoot from without blocking other folks views. We managed to take advantage of some late arrivals to sneak into the middle of the front row of tables for a song or two early in Jason Carter's first set to capture a few images from what was an outstanding night of bluegrass down here in Southwest Florida.

28/11/2023

27/11/2023

More Jason Carter live? Why not!

27/11/2023

A little Jason Carter and friends live from Fogartyville in Sarasota

24/11/2023

Happy Birthday Aaron Burdett, of the Steep Canyon Rangers

23/11/2023

We like to think this is our patience being rewarded. Mentioned the other day how starved we have been for bluegrass while down in Southwest Florida. Last Sunday we caught a fine Florida band, Justin Mason & Blue Night -- our first live bluegrass in seven weeks. And now we found this picture of the venue where we are seeing Jason Carter and Friends (Cody Kilby, Alan Bertram, Cory Walker and Chis Henry) on Sunday night in Sarasota.

And it gets better. From the venue web site: "Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center is a listening room and while the performers love the audience to applaud, laugh and occasionally sing along, conversation during the show distracts other listeners and is disrespectful to the songwriters who form the backbone of our music community.
We encourage talking before the show, between sets and after the show but ask that during the performances, audience members refrain from conversation"

If only all venues conveyed such guidelines! Really looking forward to hearing Jason's music and hopefully capturing a few images.

20/11/2023

You may have noticed we have been on a semi hiatus the past month or so. That is because we came out of day job retirement to accept a six-month temp type gig in Fort Myers, Fl. We had hoped to keep busy in our spare time checking out the local bluegrass scene. But it turns out Southwest Florida is, to quote a local fan on a Florida bluegrass page, is a bit of a bluegrass desert.

North central Florida seems to have a very vibrant scene, but down here, well today was the first time in the six weeks we have been here that we had the opportunity to catch some good live bluegrass. Here are a few images from Justin Mason & Blue Night kicking off the winter monthly Palmgrass series at the Alliance for the Arts. Bluesman Frank Cross opened.

19/11/2023

Justin Mason & Blue Night live from the first of the winter Palmgrass series in Fort Myers.

19/11/2023

This fella’s name is Frank Corso

19/11/2023

Ned Luberecki posted some photos from the Withlacoochee Bluegrass Festival. While we are big fans of The Price Sisters, we're sharing this because we are even bigger fans of the sign on the front of the stage. We need more places to do that! **u

18/11/2023

Happy Birthday Jeremy Garrett!

09/11/2023

Birthday best wishes to Justin Moses

08/11/2023

Happy Birthday Joe Craven!

03/11/2023

He's four years older today! Happy Birthday Fiddlin' Ray Bruckman

29/10/2023

Congratulations to our buddy Wade Brooks Yankey of Colebrook Road (and to the lovely and talented Mrs. Nina Scarcia Music Yankey).

Please join us in wishing a big congratulations to our mandolin player Wade Brooks Yankey and his new wife Nina Marie!

12/10/2023

Double birthday greetings to our favorite bluegrass twins -- Lauren and Leanna, The Price Sisters

11/10/2023

Happy Birthday to Leigh Gibson, of The Gibson Brothers

Leigh Gibson, The Gibson Brothers

05/10/2023

Bittersweet news from Fireside Collective. Wishing Alex Genova the best as he pursues this new adventure. But we will miss his fine picking.

04/10/2023

Sending birthday greetings to Evan Murphy of Mile Twelve

Evan Murphy, Mile Twelve

04/10/2023

Happy Birthday Billy Strings

Billy Strings, Friday afternoon at DelFest

02/10/2023

If you see our buddy Sam Wharton, of Songs From The Road Band, today, be sure to wish him a very happy birthday!

02/10/2023

Happy Birthday to a fine fiddler, fantastic vocalist, and soon to be new mom -- Libby Eddy

28/09/2023

Happy Birthday Trey Hensley

25/09/2023

Birthday greetings to The Infamous Stringdusters fine flatpicker, Andy Falco

21/09/2023

Nice tribute to the late, great, Mike Auldridge on the wall of The Birchmere

19/09/2023

It's a fiddlin' birthdays Two for Tuesday today. Sending birthday greetings to Joseph M. McAnulty, of Colebrook Road, and James Schlender, of Songs From The Road Band

18/09/2023

Happy Birthday Michael Cleveland!

Mike Cleveland, sitting in with Tim Graves and the Farmhands

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More Jason Carter live? Why not!

A little Jason Carter and friends live from Fogartyville in Sarasota

Justin Mason & Blue Night live from the first of the winter Palmgrass series in Fort Myers.

This fella’s name is Frank Corso

Been a while since we saw these fine gentlemen. The Plate Scrapers live!

Nothing beats live music on a beautiful Saturday night. This is Rock Creek Revival, live

Happy Saturday— here’s Colebrook Road live from the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival

Jon Stickley Trio (no trio) and Songs From The Road Band Tony Rice tribute live

A little Saturday afternoon Serene Green live from Wild Country Farm in Lewisberry. Thank you Seven Mountains Bluegrass Association!

Hey folks, give a listen to these local ladies. You’l be glad you did. Cumberland Honey live!

Special treat for y’all. Backstage at Bluegrass on the Grass Festival at Dickinson College with Seth Mulder & Midnight Run

Here is a little Seth Mulder & Midnight Run live

How about some Tray Wellington live on a hot Saturday as afternoon. As

Mona's Monday Night Bluegrass Session with Rick Nell, Chris Luquette, Max Johnson, and Ellery Virtual tip jar :Venmo @chrisluq1 Or PayPal.me/Chrisluq1

Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival serves as a reminder just how many outstanding "regional" bluegrass bands there are, most of whom we might never hear of. Here is a perfect example -- Bug Tussle, a band from the Binghamton, NY area. Most of their gigs are in that area, so folks like us, who live a few hours south of there, don't get an opportunity to see them except at festivals like SCJ.

Theo & Brenna Band are a brother sister duo that was a 2021 IBMA Momentum Award nominee. Here's a little bit of their music from Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival

We first saw Into The Fog at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh during IBMAs. We chose their showcase that night because Ron Kodish highly recommended them. As usual, he was spot on. A short while later they came north for a little run that included a show at Zoetropolis in Lancaster, where we were able to catch them again. It was great getting to see them for a third time at Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival. We also sat down with the fellas for a little chat. We'll be posting that to our You Tube channel when it is ready.

Tanjo & Crow was not unknown to us. Matter of fact they were one of the draws. We've been fans of Tanner Bingaman since we first saw him picking the banjo with Seldom Said No. And we have seen him solo, picking a twelve-string guitar and channeling the Bela side of his banjo brain. Also had a chance top see Tanjo and Crow in the beautiful West Shore Theater in New Cumberland. Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival promoter Ron Kodish likes to boast his festival includes all types of bluegrass, from its roots to its branches. Tanjo and Crow are way out on a limb, especially when they brought along a clarinet player. So we get it if you don't want to call this "bluegrass." Let's just call it beautiful music.

We had heard good things about Pocono Jones and the Bear but had not had a chance to see them prior to Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival. Suffice to say the Philly area duo did not disappoint.

Another very interesting band we saw for the first time at Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival was Wicked Chicken, a sort of local to SCJ band from Millheim, Pa. (Near State College). The band is led by brothers brothers Gus and Huck Tritsch. Gus is the one with the headband in the video. You may recognize him from having toured with Jake Blount. The band is not a bluegrass band, at least not by the Flatt Earth Society's standards. Huck spent much of their set on the drums. Gus picked up an electric guitar for a song or two. Their own description of their sound is "a mix of driving rock-and-roll, old-time fiddle, and blues." Most of their Pa. WIlds Stage set, though, was fiddle based, including a few tunes where the brothers did a little twin fiddling. Their set also included a few songs with Hillbilly Biscuits bass man Niko Kreider sitting in on cello (sorry, that is not in this clip).

Really enjoyed our first taste of the Joe Hillman Band on Thursday night at Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival. Based in Chester County (near Philly), Pa., they play mostly in their home area. Guess that means a road trip to Kennett Square will soon be in order. With no cell signal in the mountains, we could not stream any music from SCJ. But we saved some video clips to share. Here's some Joe Hillman Band (with Colebrook Road banjo picker Mark Rast's son, Jordan, on guitar) -

Here is a little taste of The Slocan Ramblers from last night at Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival to hold y'all until we get photos edited and posted. We apologize for the drunken war cries from the guy who didn't realize there is a reason they didn't put a microphone in the crowd for him.

Love a parade! DelFest kids parade.

A live DelFest conversation with B.E. Farrow of Gangstagrass, Dom Flemons’ band, and today playing with Justin Trawick and the Common Good

It’s The Price Sisters, live!

Live from DelFest

A live conversation with Jason Carter from DelFest 2023.

Here is a little taste of Never Come Down, live from the Potomac Stage at Delfest.

Bet the cellist in your community symphony doesn’t play like Eamonn McLain of Trampled by Turtles

Live from DelFest, a conversation with The Price Sisters

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