Bluegrass

Clear Creek Rapidgrass Music Festival lineup

Dig your bluegrass? Banjos and mandolins make your heart swell? Great. You're gonna love this shindig, two days of banjo goodness up in the hills: Clear Creek Rapidgrass is slated to go down on the first weekend of July at the Shelly/ Quinn Baseball Fields in Idaho Springs, on Friday, July 5 and Sat ... More >>

Railroad Earth

Friday, January 18, through Sunday, January 20, Ogden Theatre, 888-929-7849.

Trampled by Turtles at the Ogden, 1/10/13

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES @ OGDEN THEATRE | 1/10/13 Eerie sounds were coming out of the fiddle, the base of which Ryan Young had lodged into his chest. With his elbow bobbing up and down furiously with the movement of the bow, he summoned tones from those four strings that sounded as if they were from a ... More >>

Yonder Mountain String Band's Jeff Austin and Dave Johnston on being inspired by Colorado

If any band typifies the Colorado approach to contemporary bluegrass, it's Yonder Mountain String Band. The quartet built up its chops playing in venues in Boulder, Nederland and beyond in the late 1990s, and its fusion of traditional instrumentation and progressive musical structures resonated with ... More >>

Patrick Dethlefs on Fall Rise: "I feel like with the new album, I just got better at writing songs"

Patrick Dethlefs (due Friday, June 8, at Swallow Hill's Daniels Hall) has been building his name as a songwriter of note for the last few years. His debut album Stays the Same is credited to "Patrick Dethlefs & Friends," which is a testament to Dethlefs's unassuming persona and humility, not only wi ... More >>

Josh Abbott on the Texas/Red Dirt scene and bringing banjo back to country music

Josh Abbott (due at the Grizzly Rose this Friday, June 1) got his start playing country music while attending Texas Tech in Lubbock, spending his nights watching artists like Pat Green, Corey Morrow, Roger Creagor, Eli Young Band and Randy Rogers roll through the local country bar, the Blue Light. A ... More >>

R.I.P. Earl Scruggs, 6/26/24 - 3/28/12

Redefining an instrument and creating a new genre are rare musical feats, creative accomplishments that come once in a generation, at best. The death of Earl Eugene Scruggs on Wednesday at the age of 88 marked the passing of such an innovator, an American artist who built a brand new sound out of fo ... More >>

Review: Greensky Bluegrass at the Bluebird Theater, 2/8/12

Nick CallaioGreensky Bluegrass last night at the Bluebird Theater. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 2/8/12 Greensky Bluegrass played two sets of organic, roots-oriented bluegrass for a packed Bluebird crowd. With more than a decade under its belt and about seven years of consistently tourin ... More >>

Telluride Bluegrass Festival announces preliminary line-up

Alison Krauss & Union Station​Going strong for nearly four decades, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival just announced that Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, John Prine, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, Leftover Salmon, Bela Fleck & the Marcus Roberts Trio, Punch Brothers, P ... More >>

Great American Taxi at Cervantes', 4/15/11

​ GREAT AMERICAN TAXI The Shwillbillies • Oakhurst 04.15.11 | Cervantes' The crowd last night at Cervantes brought their dancing shoes for a bluegrass breakdown. The Shwillbilles were up first, and the quartet came out fast and furious building the energy up for the intimate crowd with in ... More >>

Infamous Stringdusters at the Fox, 3/18/11

Jamie VanBuhlerGreensky Bluegrass has built a loyal Colorado following​ INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS With Greensky Bluegrass 03.18.11 | Fox Theatre Greensky Bluegrass and the Infamous Stringdusters concluded their two-night Colorado run last night at the Fox. Greensky kicked things off with a nine ... More >>

Emmitt-Nershi Band at Bluebird Theater, 11/26/10

​ EMMITT-NERSHI BAND With Spring Creek 11.26.10 | Bluebird Theater The Emmitt-Nershi Band is what happens when you get two of the biggest names to ever come out of jam-rock in Colorado and bring them back to their rootsy home. Comprising Drew Emmitt of Leftover Salmon and Bill Nershi of Stri ... More >>

The Way Low Down

Take One
Self-released

Hot Rize was bluegrass before bluegrass was cool

Grant Gordy's folk songs rely on a global palette of sounds

Hard Pressed

In a Different Time
Self-released

Pete Wernick's banjo playing just won a Grammy for Steve Martin

Q&A with Pete Wernick, aka Dr. Banjo

While our profile on Pete Wernick in this week's issue primarily focused on the duality of his roles in his bluegrass/jazz group Flexigrass and with the traditional bluegrass act Long Road Home, Wernick also discussed a number of other things including: what good bluegrass is, his introduction and t ... More >>

Uncle Monk

Saturday, October 24, Swallow Hill, 303-777-1003.

Music for the Masses

Cheyenne hosts the Americana Music Festival.

The Steve Martin-Pete Wernick Lovefest Continues

Over the Weekend...Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ Red Rocks

Good 'Grass

Old Crow Medicine Show

Ketch Secor and company's old-timey music invokes a simpler time.

Pete Wernick

Bluegrass legend Dr. Banjo is still plucking after all these years.

Q&A With Pete Wernick of Flexigrass

Uncle Earl

These g'Earls know how to get the Led out.

' Til Death Do Us Part

Kirk Rundstrom refuses to go gently into that good night.

I See Hawks in L.A.

California Country (Western Seeds)

Zup's On

Armando Zuppa serves up a steaming bowl of alphabet newgrass.

O'Brien Family Band

Swallow Hill Music Hall

Mind Over Matter

Welcome back, Patricio Córdova.

Wild and Crazy

Local twanger Pete Wernick is ready for the national spotlight.

The Clumsy Lovers

Thursday, March 31, Avogadro's Number, Fort Collins, 1-970-493-5555; Friday, April 1, Trilogy Wine Bar, Boulder, 303-473-9463; Saturday, April 2, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys

Thursday, February 10, Boulder Theater, 303-786-7030.

Retroactive

Bruce Hornsby

Hacked Off

Bubbling beneath the sweet-sounding hill music of the Hackensaw Boys is a wellspring of political discontent.

Best Compilation Disc

Bluegrass Roots: The Best of Bluegrass and More, Live From etown

Lip Service

Grazing in the bluegrass, Split Lip Rayfield keeps pickin' and grinnin'.

The Show(case) Must Go On!

High Desert Cowboy

Mark Merryman keeps it real in the face of conspicuous Californication.

Folk Explosion

The Waybacks strike a chord with fans of old-timey music.

Open Road

Cold Wind (Rounder)

Heating Up

After losing a founding member, Leftover Salmon decides to swim rather than sink.

Hit Pick

McCloskey Brothers Band

The Picking's Good

Doc Watson has played across five decades of bluegrass music.

Up On the Mountain

At 75, Ralph Stanley is beginning his career anew.

Jerry Douglas

Lookout for Hope (Sugar Hill)

Union Man

There'll be no sorrow for O Brother multi-instrumentalist Dan Tyminski.

He Saw the Light

After learning the ropes as one of Bill Monroe's original Blue Grass Boys, Peter Rowan awakened to a world of possibilities.