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The band Gangstagrass combines hip-hop and bluegrass, whose shared roots complement each other in surprising ways. They play at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday.
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DatebookIt’s been two years since The Honey Chasers last played before a live audience.
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Bluegrass is what drew Béla Fleck to the banjo. He heard the theme song to “The Beverly Hillbillies” and the “Dueling Banjos” as a kid, and said he felt…
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Them Coulee Boys frontman Soren Staff wanted the Eau Claire, Wis.-based band’s third album to hang together thematically. Like many bands, their first…
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Shawn Hoeft of Bloomington believes her son Zac would have celebrated his 29th birthday this year had the unknown gunman who killed him been exposed to…
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Good Morning Bedlam is another young string band more inspired by — than tethered to — traditional bluegrass.Band leader Isaak Elker says an Avett…
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In the bluegrass world where technical prowess is highly valued, stand-up bassist and vocalist Jesse Farrar of Old Salt Union believes songwriting…
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Stefan Szabo came to professional music at the relative late age of his later 30s.The founder of the folk/Americana band National Park Radio says working…
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A steamboat cruise on the Illinois River seems an unlikely first gig for a gospel-tinged bluegrass band.“I don’t think everyone was interested in hearing…
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You might think bluegrass and hip-hop would mix like oil and water, but Gangstagrass banjoist Dan Whitener says the band attracts bluegrass fans being…