CARBONDALE ” Pick up tips on picking, or just listen this weekend at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale. Shop owner Steve Standiford has lined up a slate of touring musicians and local talent for a ...

Phyliss Donnelly started playing the mandolin five years ago, the year of her first Podunk. She’s returned to the Connecticut bluegrass festival every year since, improving her mandolin-picking along ...

On a recent Thursday evening, five men meet at their local pub for a pint. Just before 8 they rise up from the table, go to the corner of the room, grab their instruments and turn around with a twang.

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Cabin Fever bluegrass picking party, it appears, will not be derailed by Phish freakiness. Organizer Earl Banton recently told the Daily Press that the bluegrass picking party will happen as scheduled ...