Ben Garnett’s debut album, Imitation Fields, opens bravely, almost daring the casual listener to give up before anything recognizable as a tune emerges from the speakers. After two minutes of gentle cacophony, an angular theme emerges, tentative at first, played on banjo and fiddle.
The start of the 2023 Brevard Music Center Summer Festival – running June 3 through Aug. 19 – is far approaching. In addition to inspiring symphony, opera and chamber performances,
In February, Free Dirt Records announced new supergroup Mighty Poplar and sent shock waves of excitement throughout the acoustic world. Composed from the camps of Watchhouse, Leftover Salmon, The Punch Brothers, and Billy Strings, the bluegrass community got the goosebumps not only from the proclamation of a new album full of ear candy, but also a subsequent tour.