Upcoming Bluegrass Related Events

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Americana Slow Jam

Winchester Community Music School 407 Highland Avenue, Winchester, MA

Join WCMS for an acoustic evening of Americana classics – blues, Bluegrass, and classic hits that twang! This jam session offers a great entry level experience for those who want to learn how to play with each other in a jam setting, as well as being appropriate for more accomplished or advanced players. Songs are projected onto a screen to help you follow along, and host Steve Latanision will be on hand to help with chords and scales. We'll start with 20-30 well known Americana genre tunes to choose from (including Angel from Montgomery, Old Joe Clark, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Friend of the Devil, and Rider). You can add your own favorite song if you bring a legible lead sheet. Note that this is an all acoustic evening – bring out your guitars, banjos, mandolins, and fiddles. $10 for participants; free for audience. For more information, call 781-721-2950 or visit www.winchestermusic.org. Winchester Community Music School, 407 Highland Avenue, Winchester.

$10

Billy Strings

Billy Strings at the House of Blues Boston

Indian Hill Music Bluegrass Jam led by Tony Watt

Indian Hill Music 36 King Street, Littleton, MA

Enjoy a toe-tapping Bluegrass set led by guitarist Tony Watt and Laura Orshaw on fiddle and vocals, followed by an open jam.  Bring your instrument and sit in, or come to listen. All ages. Free refreshments! Tickets: $10 at the door. 36 King Street, Littleton MA. (978) 486-9524 | http://www.indianhillmusic.org.

$10

Mile Twelve

Best Video 1842 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT

Their authentic songwriting, well-crafted arrangements and instrumental groove have thrilled audiences around the world. In 2017 they won the International Bluegrass Music Association’s prestigious Momentum Award, and earned IBMA nominations for Emerging Artist of the Year and Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year.

$25

Joe Val Bluegrass Festival

Sheraton Framingham 1657 Worcester Road, Framingham

The premier bluegrass festival  in New England!

Price varies by day

Southern Rail at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival

Sheraton Framingham 1657 Worcester Road, Framingham

Join us Sunday morning for an exuberant hour of Bluegrass, Gospel and original material.  Our set is around 10:50am.

Back Porch Festival: Bluegrass Night!

Academy of Music Theatre, Northampton, MA 274 Main Street, Northampton, MA

Northampton, Massachusetts is the setting for a spectacular weekend of American roots music, with Saturday night designated for bluegrass.  Jerry Douglas and The Earls of Leicester will headline, with Town Mountain and Boston-based Twisted Pine (Americana Artist of 2018 by Boston Music Awards) all w/ Special Guest Danny Barnes. Come for the weekend or come for the night. Here's info: www.backporchradio.com/backporchfestival

$39.00 – $49.00

Jontavious Willis

Spire Center for Performing Arts 25 1/2 Court St, Plymouth, MA

Every generation or so a young bluesman bursts onto the scene. Someone who sends a jolt through blues lovers. Someone who has mastered the craft for sure, but who also has the blues deep down in his heart and soul. At the age of 21, bluesman JONTAVIOUS WILLIS may be the one. “That’s my Wonderboy, the Wunderkind,” Taj Mahal said after inviting Jontavious to play on stage in 2015. “He’s a great new voice of the twenty-first century in the acoustic blues. I just love the way he plays.”

$16

Sierra Hull

Spire Center for Performing Arts 25 1/2 Court St, Plymouth, MA

Sierra Hull, the singer, mandolinist and former child prodigy who signed with Rounder at age 13 and distinguished herself by becoming the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music, released 'Weighted Mind on January 29, 2016. Though she is best known for her work as a mandolin player, Hull reveals in these songs her abundant gifts as a composer and lyricist.

$35

The Stockwell Brothers at Next Stage

Next Stage 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, VT

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present contemporary bluegrass and folk quartet The Stockwell Brothers at the Next Stage Cafe on Saturday, March 16 at 7:00 pm.  To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, JD McCliments Pub will offer an Irish dinner starting at 6:00 pm, while the Stockwells will explore the connections between folk/bluegrass music and the music of Ireland. Bruce, Barry, Alan and Kelly Stockwell's music spans traditional and progressive styles, but their trademark acoustic sound features new singer/songwriter material recast with banjo, alternative rhythms and three-part harmonies.  They cover straight ahead bluegrass songs, finger picked acoustic guitar ballads, full tilt breakdowns and traditional mandolin tunes mixed in with more unusual fare - Americana melodies riding world beat grooves and Celtic, jazzy, even neo-classical instrumentals. “Tasty arrangements; brotherly harmonies, perfectly blended instruments and great songs.” – Music Revue Featuring 2005 Merlefest bluegrass banjo contest winner Bruce Stockwell, The Stockwell Brothers have performed alongside artists from Bill Monroe, Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs to Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Jonathan Edwards and Asleep At The Wheel, recorded with Mike Auldridge and Phil Rosenthal of the bluegrass supergroup The Seldom Scene, and toured throughout the United States and in Canada and Europe.  As a trio, they have released two albums, Stobro and Leave My Dreams Alone. Next Stage is located at 15 Kimball Hill in downtown Putney, VT.  Admission is by a $10 suggested donation at the door.  Next Stage will provide a wine and beer cash bar.  For information, call 802-387-0102.  For more information, visit www.stockwellbrothers.com,  www.twilightmusic.org and www.nextstagearts.org.

$10