Tag Archive for roots music

All-Star Bluegrass Ensemble Barnstar! Celebrates CD Release at Helsinki Hudson

(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…

Bluegrass and Roots Music Legends Are MASS MoCA-Bound

Infamous Stringdusters

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – With a lineup including Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown, Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon and Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall, MASS MoCA’s third annual FreshGrass Festival – which takes place this year the weekend of September 20-22, 2013 — solidly establishes for itself a place in the…

Roots Music Legends Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Play Infinity Hall

(NORFOLK, Conn.) – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – one of the key groups to put the roots back into country, folk and roots-rock music in the 1960s and 1970s, paving the way for the full-fledged American roots or “Americana” revival of the 1990s and beyond – performs at Infinity Hall in Norfolk on Friday,…

String Band Updates Tradition for 21st Century

Joy Kills Sorrow

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Boston-based string band Joy Kills Sorrow returns to Helsinki Hudson on Friday, September 9, 2011, at 9 p.m., with its bold new brand of acoustic music that combines tradition and innovation. Joy Kills Sorrow brings a decidedly modern sensibility to an old-world sound, channeling the prodigious talents of its individual members into…