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Image via YouTube. On Saturday, March 23, acclaimed mandolinist Sierra Hull invited Jeff Coffin to sit in during her set at Nashville’s The Basement East.

Acclaimed mandolinist Sierra Hull welcomed saxphonist Jeff Coffin for a two-song collaboration during her sold-out concert on Saturday at the Basement East in Nashville.

Over Memorial Day weekend, bluegrass fans descended on Cumberland, Maryland, for the 15th edition of DelFest. Named for and presided over Del McCoury, DelFest has cast a wider net than just "straight ahead bluegrass,” featuring a mix of folk, Americana, soul, and gospel styles.

This month includes the Kevin Scott Trio

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Is just a borderline” Out of the mist and carried straight through to the next track laced with Borderlines. It must have been a challenge to rise up to Joni’s pure passion poured onto a page. Every word, every lyric is so luscious with devout meaning. It leaps off the grooves of the vinyl from John Mailander and the Forecast. The tender violin chugs away from the battle onto the sunset of peaceful obscurity. "But It Did Happen." The 3rd track is like the conductor tapping the music stand. ...

John Mailander’s Forecast Lights Up The 5 Spot The genre-bending collective played Tweet Watching John Mailander’s Forecast live is a bit like trying to watch gravity. You know there’s a force holding it all together, even if you can’t see it, even when the jazz- and bluegrass-inspired collective teeters on the edge of spinning out of orbit. Those spacey improvisations took center stage during the band’s album release stream Thursday. Mailander...

Tweet Share Watching John Mailander’s Forecast live is a bit like trying to watch gravity. You know there’s a centripetal force holding it all together, even if you can’t see it, and even when the jazz- and bluegrass-inspired collective spins out of orbit. Those spacey improvisations took center stage at the band’s May 6 album release stream. Mailander’s group returned to the Five Spot, their first live show since the pandemic began, to celebrate ...

L ook Closer, the new EP from John Mailander’s Forecast, feels a bit like a microcosm of our pandemic experiences. Before lockdown, the stellar fiddler and his band were all set for a residency, but COVID-19 forced them to put the run of shows on hold. As quarantine continued, the group set up together in one room for masked and socially distanced recording sessions. Thursday, the band makes a return to its frequent haunt, Five Points bar and venue The 5 Spot, for a streaming virtual relea...