Greensky Bluegrass started out in Michigan in 2000, when its three original members, Dave Bruzza (guitar), Paul Hoffman (mandolin) and Michael Arlen Bont (banjo), began to develop their promising picking skills at open mics and bars around the city of Kalamazoo.

Warren Haynes has carved his name indelibly on the tree of roots rock.

Keller Williams is a creative musical force known for his unique improvisational style, much of which he forged while performing as a one-man jam band aided by live looping technology.

Al Laughlin talks Highway 50, the Samples and Boulder.

“I don’t know if you’re a musician or anything, but it’s terrible playing to an empty room,” says Paul Whitacre.

Matt Rouch and the Noise Upstairs’ latest song comes with a beer.

Mandolin Orange’s Emily Frantz talks music, performance and song structure ahead of two sold-out shows along the Front Range.

Omar Apollo’s music expands beyond the typical guitar-driven fare.

With tears in his eyes and a young family, Jeff Austin is headed back to Colorado.

Greg Ormont likes to get funky — and so does his jam band, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong.

Umphrey’s McGee resists definition.

Billy Strings is inspired by metal, washes his own socks and can’t stand Nashville’s big music industry. He prefers the underground bluegrass scene.

Colorado musicians are doing more than making music – they’re making a difference in the community.

Music is in Evan Sitchler’s genes.

Drew Emmitt is known as Leftover Salmon’s bluegrass-inspired mandolin player, though his first love was hard rock.

Indie artist and Denver native Joel Van Horne, aka Covenhoven, drops his third full-length recording, A Kind of Revelation, in June.

Pushing the boundaries of bluegrass is perhaps the most status-quo thing a Colorado bluegrass band can do.

Connie Hong, of the Denver-based indie-pop trio Ivory Circle, is on a continual path of self discovery.

Whitney Rose plays Goosetown Tavern, Tuesday, February 13.