The famed Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall in downtown Los Olivos returns from an eleven-month hiatus with a special Americana/Bluegrass concert by Peter Feldmann and the Very Lonesome Boys Trio. The ...

The Bluegrass Album Band is that music’s most successful repertoire group, and not just because of the incredible combination of talent. Though it exists only in the recording studio, its members play ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...

In 2015, Jon Stickley brought in revered jazz drummer Dave King to produce his next bluegrass album. He didn’t bargain for the profound change ahead. Until that point, the Jon Stickley Trio mixed ...

Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...

Musicians David West Tom Lee, Peter Feldmann and Blaine Sprouse. (Peter Feldmann) Musician Peter Feldmann, known nationally in old-time and bluegrass circles, will be joined by consummate banjo- and ...

John Reischman and the Jaybirds, who are well known in the bluegrass and folk music community, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6.

Bluegrass music’s big story of 2001 was the soundtrack to the Coen brothers’ movie — “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” — which brought many performers, and stylistic antecedents, of bluegrass to ...