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Andy Leftwich
Photo courtesy of Crossroads Label Group During the latter part of 2023, four-time Grammy-winning fiddler Andy Leftwich spent several of his nights at churches alongside his wife, Rachel, a talented vocalist and niece of his former boss, Ricky Skaggs. The couple and Leftwich’s award-winning band conveyed the spirit of Christmas with their annual show, “’Tis…
On The Fringe
Bands Blurring the Lines of Bluegrass The idea of the grand voyager can invoke many images in your mind. It invokes the idea of travel, exploration, discovery and a journey. For Baltimore’s Dirty Grass Players it holds all those meanings and more. “Grand Voyager” is a track from their first album, Beneath the Woodpile. The track is…
Jody Hughes
Online Lessons for Guitar and Banjo While researching an article that I wrote about Allen Shelton in the December 2023 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, I ran across a YouTube lesson on Allen Shelton “ideas” by Jody Hughes. I was not familiar with Jody, but he mentioned in the video that Allen Shelton was his “largest…
Curly Seckler—Willis Spears and the Nashville: Grass A Legacy Lives On
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1990, Volume 24, Number 8 John Ray (Curly) Seckler, notable pioneer of bluegrass music was born on Christmas day, 1919, near China Grove, North Carolina. Since then he has been proclaimed by many including the late Lester Flatt as the greatest tenor singer in bluegrass music. All the Seckler…
The Future of Bluegrass Festivals—An Editorial Discussion According to Me and Sam
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1994, Volume 28, Number 7 What would you say if I told you that we both could go to one festival and on the same bill hear all these performers. Let’s see, there would be Alison Krauss, Michael Doucet, Beausoleil, the Seldom Scene, C.J. Chenier, California, the Basin Brothers,…
First Annual South Carolina State Bluegrass Festival
Photos by Ed Huffman Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1971, Volume 5, Number 8 Bluegrass came to South Carolina on Thanksgiving weekend November 27-29th. The festival was held at the modern and relatively new Myrtle Beach Convention Center. It offered fans a welcome-wealth of conveniences. People …. you may not believe this …. but…