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[ACL Preview] Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven

September 1, 2010

It’s hard to believe that ACL Fest is little more than a month away! Its always fun exploiting the lineup for cool new bands. The best way to do this is to start at the bottom of the list and work your way up to the headliners. Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven are [...]

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The Belleville Outfit

September 30, 2008

Another ACL 2008 spoil was the Belleville Outfit. They’ve got sort of an old time bluegrass swing sound that is chock full of roots goodness. Not to mention their fiddle player is drop dead gorgeous! I can’t wait to see them in a more intimate setting.

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Pandora Festival Radio Stations

September 24, 2008

Those of you gearing up for Austin City Limits Festival this weekend can get pumped up listening to Pandora’s ACL festival radio station (scroll down to the bottom of the page). Additionally, Pandora has custom radio stations for Bonnaroo, Coachella, Thirsty Ear, Wakarusa and many more. Enjoy ACL this weekend and don’t forget to stay [...]

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More On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 10, 2006

Joel Selvin has a fantastic review of this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle.  The article also has some great photos.  I’m going to figure out a way to make it to this festival next year come hell or high water.  Hopefully they will break the “you can only play once [...]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 6, 2006

There is a great article on NPR about Hardly Strictly Blugrass Festival (complete with streaming audio) and how it got its start. Billionare investment banker (and claw hammer banjo player) Warren Hellman started the festival 6 years ago as a way to bring some free music to his home city of San Francisco in Golden [...]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Lineup

August 17, 2006

O man, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup has been announced and its gonna be a phenomenal festival. Of all the music festivals out there today, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is arguably the biggest and no doubt one of the best. It takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park each October for three days and [...]

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Realtime Rockygrass

July 28, 2006

I’ve been really impressed at the online representation that this summer’s music festivals have been receiving. If you want to get some (semi) realtime reports/reviews of Rockygrass, point your browser at festivalpreviewblog.blogspot.com/ who also did a wonderful job of covering Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Greyfox Bluegrass Festival. Rockygrass starts today and goes thru Sunday and [...]

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Vegoose 2006 Myspace Giveaway

July 27, 2006

So the runnaway hit new fall concert festival Vegoose will announce the 2006 lineup on August 2. This year’s Vegoose will take place on October 27-31 at the Sam Boyd stadium in Las Vegas, NV. Of all the new festivals that popped up last year I think Vegoose was the most interesting. The organizers of [...]

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Telluride Bluegrass 2006

June 22, 2006

I just got back from the 33rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival and all I can say is wow! This was one of the best if not the best festival I’ve attended (haven’t missed one since 1998)! Every day of the festival hosted incredible music, friends and fun. It was cloudy on Thursday and Friday and [...]

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Neil Young: Heart Of Gold, live at Willie Nelson’s July 4th Picnic

March 14, 2006

Have you heard about the Neil Young’s new film Heart of Gold? It was released last month and features Neil Young performing at the Ryman Auditorium with legends such as Emmylou Harris. Read more about it here. Thanks to Phish & Chips, I present you with Neil Young at Willie Nelson’s fourth of July picnic: [...]

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