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Steve Martin & Edie Brickell performing “When You Get to Asheville” with The Steep Canyon Rangers on the Late Show with David Letterman 4/23/2013 Edie – what a talent. Props to my man Charles R. Humphrey III on the double bass.

Adrienne Howard will be joining us tonight  at Life Alive with her fiddle.  In case you didn’t know – Adrienne hosts the old time music jam at the Real School of Music in Burlington, MA the third Thursday of every month. More about the Old Time Jam at the Real School: The first Thursday of [...]

NEFFA Festival is happenning this weekend. NEFFA (also known as The New England Folk Festival) is a fabulous blend of dance, music, crafts, and food from many lands. The 2013 Festival, our 69th annual Festival, is to be held on April 19-21, 2013 in Mansfield, Massachusetts (near Boston). One of the things that makes the [...]

Fiddle player Laura Smith will be sitting in with Bob and Andy this Thursday night at Life Alive in Lowell.  This might be her first visit back to Lowell since winning the annual Lowell Banjo and Fiddle Contest run by Alex Demas of the National Park Service.  Come out and celebrate the last day of [...]

Vocalist Alley Stoetzel will be joining Bob and Andy this Thursday at Life Alive.   Alley attended the Berklee School of Music, where she majored in vocal performance. While still at Berklee, she began performing in blues and soul bands, which ultimately led to her well recieved first recording “Public Alley 421″ as “Soul Alley,” a [...]

Television writer-producer Marc Fields and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka explore America’s quintessential instrument, assisted by Darol Anger on fiddle. Based on Field’s PBS documentary “Give Me the Banjo,” ‘The Banjo Project’ illustrates the banjo’s history and performance styles from African roots to contemporary jazz with a lively narrative and masterful performances. its history and performance [...]

Who’s the guy playing mandolin in those GEICO insurance commercials?  The mystery is solved! According to some threads on Mandolin Café it’s “Elio Schiavo, mandolin player and band leader of the Six Deadly Venoms“  he recorded the mandolin tracks for the commercial on Voight #3.” The guy on camera holding the mandolin is Alex Harvey, a [...]

The Music Emporium will be hosting Bill Collings for an intimate evening of spirited conversation. This will be Bill’s fifth visit to the store in the last ten years and if past events are any indication, the evening will be quite entertaining, very informative, and indeed inspirational. Go meet Bill and his team leader for [...]