The Lil Smokies, a band known for its modern bluegrass sound that incorporates musical elements, draws inspiration from everywhere.
Playing Friday at Tico Time’s Bluegrass Festival, the band will mak.
Often resembling a real-life musical snow globe in the California’s high Sierra, the eighth annual WinterWonderGrass-Tahoe, April 5 to 7, brought a hardy bunch of musicians – and resilient attendees – to Palisades Tahoe ski resort, in the midst of the Olympic Village that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics.
Jake Simpson’s path to becoming a professional fiddle player began with a makeshift guitar constructed from an empty Kleenex box with rubber bands stretched across it as strings. Simpson’s first “guitar,” which was made by.