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If you’re a bluegrass procrastinator, you’re in luck. The Town of Telluride and Planet Bluegrass agreed to release additional tickets to this summer’s 51st Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and tickets

The options for live music in New Orleans this week include an awards show tribute to pioneering funk band the Gladiators as well as an internationally flavored guitar festival.

The Tin Men are all about making daring feats of musicology look easy. How in the world do you go full-throttle P-Funk in a two-thirds...

How many people have been to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival all 50 years? Okay, let’s make this a little easier: Raise your hand if you’ve maintained a relationship of 50

How many people have been to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival all 50 years? Okay, let’s make this a little easier: Raise your hand if you’ve maintained a relationship of 50

Caroline Williams, known by most as Phant, broke down in tears at the front door of Neutral Ground Coffeehouse. Someone waiting at the door mistook the Neutral Ground co-owner for a Realtor looking to sell the building where the coffee shop lives. That’s how Williams and James Naylor learned their coffeehouse could lose its longtime […]

OffBeat Magazine I’m not sure if New Orleans has reached peak neo-trad yet, but each new release I hear indicates that the music created a century ago still offers a lot for younger musicians to explore. The Secret Six is a side project led by bassist John Joyce of the Smoking Time Jazz Club. The album features members of that project as well as vocalist Meschiya Lake and other musicians from the tightly-knit Frenchmen Street scene. Given the extremely limited parameters of the pandemic, this...