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Nefesh Mountain – Love And Light Tour

The Cut 177 Main Street, Gloucester, MA

The New York based Progressive Americana group Nefesh Mountain Band has been hailed as one of the formative boundary-pushing ensembles in roots music. The band's creators and dynamic husband and wife team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff have created a world and sound all their own; blurring the lines between Americana, Bluegrass, Folk, Jazz and Blues with a masterful hand as songwriters, instrumentalists and composers alike.

$25

Winter Village Music Camp

Unnamed Venue Rutland, VT

Winter Village Music Camp - Jan 9-12  Ithaca NY Why attend Winter Village Music Camp?  Learn from world-class faculty in small, intimate settings.  Explore diverse genres, including bluegrass, old-time, swing, and Celtic.  Build confidence with workshops, jam sessions, and live performances.  Connect with a welcoming community of musicians who share your passion.  Recharge your creativity in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. This is more than a music camp—it’s an experience that will resonate long after the last note is played. Get your tickets today: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../winter-village-music-camp... Winter Village Music Camp is a fun and inspiring winter weekend of learning, listening and playing music in a friendly and welcoming setting. The camp is designed for musicians of all skill and experience levels, offering nearly one hundred workshops on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, ukulele, singing, and songwriting in a variety of styles including Bluegrass, Old Time, Irish, New England, Cajun, Scandinavian, Swing, Folk and Americana. Our faculty is comprised of touring professional performers along with many of Ithaca’s finest teacher-performers. You can study with Rachel Eddy, Emily Miller & Jesse Milnes, Judy Hyman, Kevin Wimmer, Louise Bichan & Ethan Setiaway, Quinn Bachand & Natalie Padilla, the Clements Brothers, Eli Gilbert, Richie Stearns, Austin Scelzo, Joey Arcuri, Dave Davies, Tim Ball, Tenzin Chopak, Laura Hart, Benny Bleu, Perry Cleaveland, Maria Gillard, Paul Fairbanks, and Rick Manning. Whether playing on the front porch or the performance stage, Winter Village offers musicians the tools to play better, practice more effectively, enhance performance skills to help you share your love for music with others.

$235 – $280

Winter Village Music Camp

Unnamed Venue Rutland, VT

Winter Village Music Camp - Jan 9-12  Ithaca NY Why attend Winter Village Music Camp?  Learn from world-class faculty in small, intimate settings.  Explore diverse genres, including bluegrass, old-time, swing, and Celtic.  Build confidence with workshops, jam sessions, and live performances.  Connect with a welcoming community of musicians who share your passion.  Recharge your creativity in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. This is more than a music camp—it’s an experience that will resonate long after the last note is played. Get your tickets today: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../winter-village-music-camp... Winter Village Music Camp is a fun and inspiring winter weekend of learning, listening and playing music in a friendly and welcoming setting. The camp is designed for musicians of all skill and experience levels, offering nearly one hundred workshops on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, ukulele, singing, and songwriting in a variety of styles including Bluegrass, Old Time, Irish, New England, Cajun, Scandinavian, Swing, Folk and Americana. Our faculty is comprised of touring professional performers along with many of Ithaca’s finest teacher-performers. You can study with Rachel Eddy, Emily Miller & Jesse Milnes, Judy Hyman, Kevin Wimmer, Louise Bichan & Ethan Setiaway, Quinn Bachand & Natalie Padilla, the Clements Brothers, Eli Gilbert, Richie Stearns, Austin Scelzo, Joey Arcuri, Dave Davies, Tim Ball, Tenzin Chopak, Laura Hart, Benny Bleu, Perry Cleaveland, Maria Gillard, Paul Fairbanks, and Rick Manning. Whether playing on the front porch or the performance stage, Winter Village offers musicians the tools to play better, practice more effectively, enhance performance skills to help you share your love for music with others.

$235 – $280

Joe Walsh & Matt Flinner

Cafe Amici 1640 Whitney Ave, Hamden, CT

Mandolins, banjo and vocals from two of the top talents in bluegrass.

$30

New Song presents Southern Rail

Newsong Coffeehouse Bedford Town Hall Auditorium, 10 Mudge Way, Bedford, MA

Southern Rail's concerts are joyous and engaging with stunning harmonies, irrepressible good humor and sparkling banjo, guitar and mandolin. Their repertoire is fresh and diverse, featuring lots of originals plus a kaleidoscope of covers. Two of the band's founding members (guitarist Jim Muller and bassist Sharon Horovitch) were recently inducted into the RIBA Hall of Fame. Tix in advance and at the door.  Doors open at 7.  Great refreshments during intermission.

$25
Tony Trishka sitting with a banjo next to Bruce Molsky with a fiddle.

Bruce Molsky & Tony Trischka

Groton Hill Music Center 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA

Two legends of the folk/roots world—Grammy-nominated fiddler extraordinaire Bruce Molsky and banjo master Tony Trischka— return to Meadow Hall for an evening of old time string band wizardry. The two will trade songs from their broad and beloved catalogs as well as the deep well of American traditional folk tunes, both well-known and recently unearthed. Groton Hill Music Center

Southern Buffet & Bluegrass in Sudbury with Southern Rail

First Parish Sudbury 327 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA

Mardis Gras Night  featuring a Southern style home cooked dinner and a the high energy exuberance of  Southern Rail!   Snow date will be Sunday Feb. 9. Appetizers at 4:30.  Dinner 5-6.  Cash bar.  Concert 6-8.  A limited number of concert only tickets will be available.  Last year was a complete sell-out, so reservations highly recommended. Free parking is available at First Parish's Meetinghouse, 327 Concord Road, Sudbury, or across the street, behind Sudbury Town Hall

$6 – $45

BBU JamVal 2025

Sheraton Framingham 1657 Worcester Road, Framingham

The Boston Bluegrass Union is excited to announce JamVal 2025 at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel over Presidents Day Weekend, February 14-16, 2025. Just like the original JamVal, this will be a weekend-long bluegrass “non-festival” focused on jamming. There will be dozens of workshops and jams hosted by loads of amazing musicians and teachers, and one big difference from usual festivals: no big stage show to distract from the picking! Stay tuned for ticketing and hotel info.

New Dangerfield band photo, performing on a stage with an audience in front of them.

New Dangerfield

Groton Hill Music Center 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA

A century of forgetfulness and erasure has led to diminished public awareness of the Black string band tradition – and equally diminished numbers of Black string bands. Once numerous, these ensembles have grown few and far between. In recent decades, only one Black string band has emerged per generation. The 1980’s saw the birth of the Ebony Hillbillies. Nearly three decades later, the Carolina Chocolate Drops formed and took the tradition to new heights. As of 2023, a new Black string band has emerged to carry the torch: New Dangerfield. New Dangerfield was originally conceptualized by award-winning bluegrass banjoist Tray Wellington, who enlisted three other acclaimed Black roots musicians: multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kaïa Kater, bassist Nelson Williams (Chris Jones & the Night Drivers), and fiddler and singer Jake Blount. Irrepressible and adventurous from the start, the band is musically versatile and charismatic. Groton Hill Music Center

Sierra Hull

Groton Hill Music Center 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA

Sierra Hull is widely regarded to be a as a master of her instrument; A two-time Grammy Nominated artist and songwriter, recognized for both her most recent projects, 25 Trips (2020) and Weighted Mind (2016), she is also the 4x recipient of IBMA’s Mandolin Player of the Year, the first woman to ever receive this distinction. A pioneer for acoustic music throughout her already impressive multi-decade career, she has graced the country’s most iconic stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Grand Ole Opry, and the White House. Groton Hill Music Center $45-65

$45
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