All photos by Richard Kluver/grass clippings blog Saturday at the 2015 Newport Folk Fest was a day so packed with great sets and memorable moments that it was a constant battle to decide where to […]
Tag: bela fleck
Brooklyn Rider Backs Béla Fleck at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival
The lineup at this summer’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival (June 19-22) is looking stellar with more heavy hitters than in recent years, including David Rawlings Machine (featuring Gillian Welch), Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck and the Colorado […]
Initial Telluride Lineup Announced
Over the weekend, Planet Bluegrass announced the first round of the 2014 Telluride lineup, which includes the usual suspects as well as Seattle’s Brandi Carlile and both The Lone Bellow and Aoife O’Donovan of our […]
PBS Takes a Deep Dive on Banjo’s History
A few months back, NPR did an interesting story about the history of the banjo. Not to be outdone, PBS, the other government sponsored creator of amazing content applauded by pretentious elitists, hipsters and geriatrics […]
fresh clippings: Abigail Wasburn’s City of Refuge
Great story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal on Abigail Wasburn. I first saw Abigail at Telluride in 2005 when she played in the all-girls band Uncle Earle. After that she toured with Bela Fleck […]
grass stains: Bela Fleck & Toumani Diabate at Telluride
I got the chance to see these guys play together in Central Park (for free) over the summer. It’s hard to put this in a category, but there’s just something really special about it. If […]
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