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CUMBERLAND – It’s about a thousand miles from Blackstone River Theatre to Nashville, but the members of Rock Hearts bluegrass band feel right at home in both music-loving locales. The
Deadlines are fast approaching for applications to two late summer music camps presented by Mountain Song Productions and the Brevard Music Center.
As communicator, activist, wandering minstrel, Arko Mukhaerjee traverses many worlds within his own as he explores a connection to ‘the people’
The members of Hildaland, Louise Bichan and Ethan Setiawan, will stop by WTJU Thursday afternoon to go track by track through their latest release, Sule Skerry. Orkney (Scotland) born fiddler Louise Bichan and Indiana (USA) mandolinist Ethan Setiawan present a collaboration and meeting of their musical worlds.
Woody Platt led the Steep Canyon Rangers for 23 years, from the band’s scrappy days touring in a van to their high-profile gig backing Steve Martin.But after the forced break of the pandemic, Platt didn’t feel the same excitement about returning to the road. His life in Brevard, N.C., with his wife — painter, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shannon Whitworth — his son, and a trout stream just across the field from their farmhouse kept calling him home. So in 2022, he stepped away from the Steep Canyon Rangers.