(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Barnstar!, an all-star collective of bluegrass and roots-music talent, will celebrate the release of its new album, “Sit Down! Get Up! Get Out!,” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, February 6, at 9pm. Using the familiar tools of the genre, Barnstar! forges its own brand of song-based bluegrass, gloriously harmonized and raucously…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A double-bill of classic country sounds with gospel-honkytonk outfit Sacred Shakers and high lonesome country singer Zoe Muth with her band, the Lost High Rollers, pull into Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, December 5, 2014, at 9pm. Muth’s clear, honest vocals and classic approach have garnered her comparisons to Maybelle Carter, Loretta…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Bluegrass duo Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan perform at the Colonial Theatre on Thursday, October 16, 2014, at 8pm. Grammy Award-nominated banjoist Pikelny is a member of the group Punch Brothers and was formerly a member of Leftover Salmon and the John Cowan Band. Stuart Duncan is a longtime member of the…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Alternative bluegrass ensemble Crooked Still, back together again this autumn after a three-year hiatus, plays one of its first reunion gigs at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday, September 24, at 8pm. After a decade of constant activity, the members of Crooked Still decided to take a break from touring in 2011 in…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Minnesota-based string band Saint Anyway brings its unique “stomp-grass” sound to Castle Street Café on Saturday, October 5, 2013, at 7:30pm. Hailing from Duluth, Minn., the birthplace of Bob Dylan, Saint Anyway plays a hard-driving, hard-picking North Country bluegrass-inflected original roots music it calls “stomp-grass” that should appeal to fans of…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Devil Makes Three, Sam Bush, the Deadly Gentlemen, Sarah Jarosz, and Greensky Bluegrass have been added to an already impressive lineup for this year’s FreshGrass, MASS MoCA‘s three-day fall festival of bluegrass and roots music, on the weekend of September 20-22, 2013. These five acts join such stars as Del McCoury,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The streets, alleys, parks, galleries, nightclubs and restaurants of Hudson will be pouring forth with music this weekend when the third annual Hudson Music Festival, featuring free performances throughout the city, takes place from Friday, August 9, through Sunday, August 11, 2013. The festival will showcase artists from around the region and…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Old Crow Medicine Show, whose hard-hitting approach to old-time country, folk, string-band and bluegrass anticipated the neo-folk revival of bands including Mumford & Sons, Lumineers and Avett Brothers, performs at MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 8pm. The show by the Nashville-based outfit…
BRAD MEHLDAUD and CHRIS THILE MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Saturday, April 13, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – There was one perfect moment in the unusual duo concert featuring pianist Brad Mehldau and mandolinist-singer Chris Thile at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday night. It occurred right at the beginning of…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Two of the greatest innovators in contemporary American music – jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and bluegrass mandolinist and vocalist Chris Thile – have joined forces to create an inexplicable fusion of composed and improvised music. The two bring their duo tour, promising an evening of classical transcriptions, pop covers, and original…
