Rainy Miatke

Sadie’s Newest Sister Photo By Stephen Cannoy When we featured the powerhouse bluegrass band Sister Sadie on the cover of our June 2021 issue, the band had recently replaced original member Dale Ann Bradley with Jaelee Roberts (see article on page 38).  When Tina Adair left the band she was replaced with Mary Meyer and then…

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the artists

Photo by Eric ahlgrim

Bluegrass Born & Raised

“I’m a bluegrass baby,” declared 23-year-old Jaelee Roberts, lead singer/guitarist with Sister Sadie and nominee for IBMA’s 2024 Female Vocalist of the Year, recipient of SPBGMA’s 2023 Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year, nominee for IBMA’s 2022 New Artist of the Year, and recipient of IBMA’s 2021 Momentum Vocalist of the Year….

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Tom Paxton

A Songwriter’s Songwriter Photos by Michael G. Stewart Tom Paxton has been an integral part of the songwriting and folk music community since the early 1960’s Greenwich Village scene, and continues to be a primary influence on today’s performers. The Chicago native came to New York via Oklahoma, which he considers to be his home…

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(L to R) Kristin Scott Benson, John Bryan, Jamie Harper, Danny Roberts, Jamie Johnson and Terry Smith. Photo by Laci Mack

The Grascals Celebrate the Big 2-0

Over the last twenty years, The Grascals have set the music world on fire with their stellar singing and impeccable instrumental abilities. What started as a modest desire to have fun and create some good music soon blossomed into a bluegrass band that is a force to reckon within the industry.  “We did have some…

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from the archives

Kristen Scott Benson with The Grascals — Cutting The Grass Ceiling

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 2010, Volume 45, Number 4 It’s hard to imagine, when today bluegrass boasts headliners such as Alison Krauss and Rhonda Vincent and a host of superpickers including Alison Brown, Sierra Hull, Missy Raines, and the SteelDrivers’ Tammy Rogers, but it wasn’t long ago that women weren’t welcome in the…

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