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2025 Festival Guide

United States Arizona  Desert Bluegrass FestivalMarch 7-9, 2025 Gladden Farms Community Park12205 N Tangerine Farms RdMarana, Arizona 85653 520-245-6126desertbluegrass.org/marana-festival-2019 Pickin’ in the Pines Bluegrass Music Festival September 12-14, 2025 250 Garrison RdFlagstaff, Arizona 86005pickininthepines.org Arkansas Mountain View Fall  Bluegrass FestivalNovember 6-8, 2025 1032 Park AveMountain View, Arkansas 72211501-350-9676mountainviewbluegrass.com California  Parkfield Bluegrass FestivalMay 8-11, 2024 70410 Parkfield-Coalinga…

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“O Come All Ye Fiddlers” Vocal Accompaniment

In this video Mike Mitchell demonstrates how to play accompaniment on the fiddle while singing a tune he taught during last year’s holiday season “O Come All Ye Fiddlers.”

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Jake Tullock—The “Forgotten” Foggy

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine July 2015, Volume 50, Number 1 In bluegrass, as in many other kinds of music, the accolades most often go to the singers and instrumentalists that occupy the spotlight. The bass player, who stands in the shadows, often receives little recognition for his or her talent, even though he’s providing…

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219: Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Fred Carpenter

This week we feature fiddler Fred Carpenter.  Fred has had a long career in bluegrass music and with selling and repairing fiddles at his shop in Nashville.  He also has a new album out titled One More Thing that includes an impressive group…

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Art Wooten Remembered

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1988, Volume 22, Number 10 In the December 1986 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, we ran an obituary of Art Wooten, who past in October of that year.  Then, in April of 1988 we ran a story remembering Art Wooten.  Here, we are first reprinted the short obituary, and then…

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The Flatt G-Run on the Guitar

In this lesson Dan Miller demonstrates the G-Run on the guitar to help celebrate Lester Flatt being on the cover of the December 2024 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. He talks about the mechanics of using the Rest Stroke and demonstrates a few variations of the G-run.

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