Bluegrass Music News--4.6.12

Jazz, classical, bluegrass, tango ... Survival Center also serves up good music GazetteNET Funded largely through a $5000 grant from Mass Humanities, it features free monthly concerts - jazz, classical and Renaissance, bluegrass, African, tango - to give people who might not be able to afford a concert a chance to hear live music. See all stories on this topic » GazetteNET

Music and fun for all ages at Bluebirds and Bluegrass Festival at Dauset Trails Macon Telegraph (blog) Dauset Trails Nature Center will hold its 12th annual Bluebirds and Bluegrass Festival on Saturday. The free event includes live music and an egg hunt for children. "It's a chance for people to get outdoors and see what else there is to do," said ... See all stories on this topic » Macon Telegraph (blog)

Peter Rowan and the Free Mexican Airforce give traditional music new life Anchorage Daily News The former combines bluegrass with the appealing tempo of reggae, while the latter is an acoustic record with renowned guitarist Tony Rice, hailed as a "musical match made in heaven" by music magazine Relix. Many of his songs also include ... See all stories on this topic »

West Asheville's Sanctum Sully turns up the bluegrass heat with new CD Asheville Citizen-Times Bluegrass instrumentation collides with rock, jam band riffs, mountain music, original songwriting and three-part harmony when West Asheville-based Sanctum Sully takes the stage. Energetically intent on sharing their collective creative experience in a ... See all stories on this topic »

Fundraiser to deliver birdies and bluegrass The News-Press Because 1000 golf balls will be dropped around the hole from a helicopter as part of the Birdies and Bluegrass golf tournament benefiting the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and youth music education. The balls will be marked, and the person with the ... See all stories on this topic »

BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: Old-time good time San Angelo Standard Times SAN ANGELO, Texas — Why do bluegrass fans love their music?"It's homegrown. It started in the US from various types of cultures," said Ricky Rogers, one of the organizers of next weekend's Concho Valley Bluegrass Festival. The music has "progressed ... See all stories on this topic »

SMF: Tony Trischka & Bruce Molsky/Abigail Washburn @ Morris Center Connect Savannah.com And we are glad to have them, thrilled to watch and listen to the places these exemplary musicians are taking the banjo, mandolin, fiddle and other instruments heretofore associated with old-time mountain music and bluegrass. It can be an exhilarating ... See all stories on this topic »

Local music: Nearer to an old-time string band Minneapolis Star Tribune Most of all, the thing that separates Pert Near Sandstone from Trampled and a lot of the other string bands catering to rock fans nowadays is Pert Near's faithfulness to old-time bluegrass and folk music. Even the dozen original songs on the group's ... See all stories on this topic »

Music: John, Jonathan and Nathan McEuen riff on 'The McEuen Sessions' The Republic The 15-song album (including three bonus tracks) is what you might expect from a McEuens outing -- folk, bluegrass, country, country-rock and rock elements in a sonic stew that is now commonly referred to as "Americana" music. "I think it is Americana, ... See all stories on this topic »