An upright or double bass provides the lowest tones in an orchestra, but also can play the rhythmic background to a jazz improvisation or the solid foundation of a bluegrass song. It can be played ...

You wonder: What’s that thrashing? The sky is dark. The fields have gone silent. But there’s a bonfire off in the distance, surrounded by vaguely human shapes and a furious funnel of sound — acoustic ...

Midwest Bluegrass is hosting its inaugural Naperville Bluegrass Festival on March 25-26 at the Lisle-Naperville Sheraton, 3000 Warrenville Road in Lisle. The festival was originally scheduled for 2020 ...

Between them, members of bluegrass supergroup the Wood Box Heroes have twice as many years of experience as awards they've won. But when considering that they have a combined 100 years of expertise on ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Sound and light melted together inside Hill Auditorium Friday night as Greensky Bluegrass performed in Ann Arbor for the first time in nearly 13 years. The five-piece Michigan ...

Plenty of Miamians badmouth the city’s putrid local music scene (oops, there we go again). But South Florida Bluegrass Association, which holds monthly concerts, has played music in the backwoods of ...

Bluegrass orthodoxy is far from Dadweed’s concern. The Portland, Oregon, trio’s lineup comprises two guitars and an upright bass, eschewing instruments typical to the genre like banjo, fiddle and ...