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Gary Ferguson is a well-known and popular guitarist and songwriter based in the Pennsylvania-Maryland area. Colin Henry is a well-known and popular resonator-guitar player based in Ireland. Ferguson met Henry on one of Ferguson’s many Irish tours and the pair hit it off immediately, with Henry eventually joining Ferguson on some of the tours. As…

Vermont-based Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of New England folk music, the traditional niche which she has carved out. With her sweet, plaintive voice, fiddle wizardry and stirring original songs, she brings fresh life and immediacy to the genre. Like many inspired works of the past few years, Falling Forward was born out of the…

Annie Staninec resides in Portland, Oregon, and began playing fiddle at a very young age. She has been a music teacher and performer and has toured a number of countries. She plays everything from bluegrass to rock and has played with such as David Grisman, Darol Anger and Rod Stewart. She is now a member…

Growing up in Georgia, Reynolds liked rock and roll and performed around her home. While in college she discovered that country and bluegrass were the kinds of music she wanted to sing. In the 2000s, she moved to the Washington, D.C., area, found a home performing with local bluegrass bands and teamed up with banjoist…

Chicago-based Henhouse Prowlers call themselves the Bluegrass Ambassadors, for in the past 16 years or so the band has toured over 25 countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia and has even traveled to Siberia. The Henhouse Prowlers are Jon Goldfine (bass, vocals), Chris Dollar (guitar, vocals), Jake Howard (mandolin, vocals) and Ben Wright (banjo, vocals)….

The 60th Anniversary of Suwanee, Georgia’s Everett’s Music Barn “We had a lot of company” Rena (Everett) McDaniel reflected. “It seemed normal to stay up until four, five, or six o’clock on Sunday morning because there were still people here playing…right outside my bedroom door.” She was relating childhood memories of her life in the…