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Robbie Fulks, stalwart of the alt-country and roots-rock scene for a quarter-century, talks about his full-scale move into bluegrass for a new album.

MANCHESTER — Thursday music will be back at this year’s Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival, along with many familiar faces returning to perform at Hunter Park.

MANCHESTER — Thursday music will be back at this year’s Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival, along with many familiar faces returning to perform at Hunter Park.

Acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11. After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps, Kottke joined the Navy underage, to be underwater, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at ligh...

Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Crazy Horse, boygenius, The New Pornographers, William Tyler, Steve Gunn & David Moore, The Hold Steady, London Brew, Mighty Poplar, and Scott McMicken.

At its heart, bluegrass music is about what happens when you commit to the moment. The joy of improvisation keeps the music fresh, and the fun of crafting ideas on the fly keeps the musicians on their toes. This true spirit of bluegrass infuses the self-titled record from Mighty Poplar, a new all-star roots project featuring Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse, Noam Pikelny and Chris Eldridge of Punch Brothers, bassist Greg Garrison (Leftover Salmon) and fiddler Alex Hargreaves (Billy Strings) coming Ma...

The self-titled debut from the new bluegrass supergroup releases May 31 on Free Dirt Records.

“I want to give you an assignment,” writes Mighty Poplar’s Chris Eldridge. The challenge is to listen past the top layer of an album and find the playfulness of the musicians that gives the tunes their magic.

GRAMMY Award-winning music pioneer Alison Brown’s banjo “is an instrument possessed of a unique sonic signature and an inescapable beauty” (Billboard), and it shows on her new collaboration with GRAMMY Award-winning musician/actor/author Steve Martin, “Foggy Morning Breaking,” available everywhere tomorrow (3.24). Watch the “Foggy Morning Breaking” video, here: youtu.be/lFMX4t4FHsc

Today, Borderlands Festival has shared its 2023 artist lineup. The impending event is scheduled to take place on Sept. 15 through 17 at Knox Farm State