The annual International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event concluded last month in Nashville, Tennessee. This is bluegrass music’s biggest event of the year, featuring...
With the weather turning weird and the weird turning pro I am happy to inform you of an alternative to soaring in a hot air balloon...
As my flight lifts off from the Baton Rouge runway, a silvery trickle of sunlight glints along the plane’s wing (of which I have a perfect...
“I have a tendency to say ‘yes.’ It’s an important part of my life,” says Coral MacFarland Thuet. The singer, teacher, and actress, dressed in a...
Hello Troubadourians! This month I’m writing about something non-technical for a change. I spent the weekend of October 19-21 at the FAR-West Conference, performing with my...
It should be no surprise that the Black Market III has exploded onto the local blues scene. “Mad Dog” Scottie Blinn has fronted the Mississippi Mudsharks,...
San Diego is blessed with many talented acoustic and roots musicians. Some are fairly high profile, are bandleaders, or otherwise manage to find the limelight they...
I’ve tried to keep politics out of these columns but if you knew something about my background, you’d know that isn’t always possible. At any rate,...
