On Saturday April 29. the Concord Conservatory of Music continues their American Roots series with Southern Rail. Southern Rail's bluegrass is high octane exuberant fun with stunning harmonies, irrepressible good humor and sparkling banjo, guitar and mandolin.
Five seasoned musicians from Southern New England, this bluegrass band has been receiving lots of attention and radio airplay lately. They were a 2021 IBMA Showcase band.
Three masterful genre-benders—Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer—come together once again to blur geographic borders and musical boundaries for an exuberantly virtuosic and exciting evening of music. Bluegrass, classical, global music, jazz, and more come together and recombine in unheard-of ways. Their joy is palpable, and the audience will share the excitement and enthusiasm!
Friendly jams for friendly people, led by our fun faculty performers. Our Drop-In Jam Night is four jams in four genres, under one roof: Bluegrass with Frank Drake Irish with Laurel Martin Ukulele with Mark Femino Jazz with Dave Fox Music is a collaborative art form, bringing us together to listen, learn, and rip a few hot breaks. Join us as we open Groton Hill’s inspiring facilities to jammers from across the region. Pick your favorite genre and play, move from room to room, or just hang out with friends to listen over a pint. For intermediate players ages 16+. Bars are open for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Patrons must furnish a valid ID to purchase alcoholic beverages. $10 at the door - cash or credit card accepted.
Friendly jams for friendly people, led by our fun faculty performers. Our Drop-In Jam Night is four jams in four genres, under one roof: Bluegrass with Frank Drake Irish with Laurel Martin Ukulele with Mark Femino Jazz with Dave Fox Music is a collaborative art form, bringing us together to listen, learn, and rip a few hot breaks. Join us as we open Groton Hill’s inspiring facilities to jammers from across the region. Pick your favorite genre and play, move from room to room, or just hang out with friends to listen over a pint. For intermediate players ages 16+. Bars are open for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Patrons must furnish a valid ID to purchase alcoholic beverages. $10 at the door - cash or credit card accepted.
Too Blue is bringing their acoustic blend of bluegrass & swing to Lily P's! Special Saturday show with Too Blue from NY/CT as featured artist. Lily P’s Fried Chicken & Oysters, 50 Binney St, Cambridge, MA 02142. Info at: www.bluegrasstuesdays.com Show 7 pm – 9 pm, jam set after. Suggested donation $20.
There is only one consensus pick of peers and predecessors, of the traditionalists, the rebels, and the next gen devotees, for bluegrass music’s ultimate inside outsider (or is it outside insider?). There is only one Sam Bush. The mandolin/fiddle/guitar-playing icon has taken the genre to new heights over a 50+ year career having worked with such legends as Leon Russell, Emmylou Harris, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, and Lyle Lovett. In 2009, the Americana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist. Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Greensky Bluegrass are just a few present-day bluegrass vanguards among so many musicians he’s influenced. His performances are annual highlights of the festival circuit, with Bush’s joyous perennial appearances at the town’s famed bluegrass fest earning him the title, “King of Telluride.” “With this band I have now I am free to try anything. Looking back at the last 50 years of playing newgrass, with the elements of jazz improvisation and rock-&-roll, jamming, playing with New Grass Revival, Leon, and Emmylou; it’s a culmination of all of that,” says Bush. “I can unapologetically stand onstage and feel I’m representing those songs well.” Experience the legendary instrumentalist in live performance with his band in Worcester, MA on Friday, June 9, 2023.
The renowned Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus is joined by Southern Rail for a joyous and uplifting program of bluegrass and song. Not to be missed! "Southern Rail is one of the most significant groups in contemporary bluegrass...on the cutting edge of creativity". - Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
Hard driving traditional bluegrass by 3-time IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year. Outdoor concert, bring chair, refreshments and sun hat.
Shawn Camp (guitar, lead vocals) – Charlie Cushman (banjo, guitars) – Jerry Douglas (Dobro, vocals) – Johnny Warren (fiddle, bass vocals) – Jeff White (mandolin, vocals) When the Earls of Leicester formed in 2013, their mission was ambitious but exact: to preserve and promote the legacy of bluegrass legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, in hopes of reviving the duo’s music for longtime admirers and introducing a new generation to their genre-defining sound. Within a year of releasing their self-titled debut, the Nashville-based six-piece far surpassed their own expectations, winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album and earning six awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Now, with their first live album, Earls of Leicester offer up a selection of songs that fully capture the pure joy and supreme musicianship that propel their every performance. Recorded over two nights at Nashville’s CMA Theater, The Earls of Leicester Live at The CMA Theater in The Country Music Hall of Fame bears a boundless vitality that makes songs from over a half-century ago feel irresistibly fresh. Despite the band’s painstaking precision in recreating the catalog of Flatt and Scruggs’s Foggy Mountain Boys, the album unfolds with an easy warmth that honors the essence of traditional bluegrass, which Douglas describes as “music that was meant to be played on back porches.” Earls of Leicester Live is also accompanied by a DVD that shows the complete splendor of their live set: the throwback attire, the off-the-cuff but illuminating between-song banter, the relentless hotfooting required of their stage setup. “Our goal is to go out and reacquaint everybody with the music of Flatt and Scruggs just the way they did it, which means fewer microphones and a good amount … Read More »