Something about moving through familiar spaces with the energy of brilliant voices who were halfway across the country or the world a few days ago … draws me back to FreshGrass every year.
Read articleAnnual folk, roots and bluegrass festival at Mass MoCA in September
FreshGrass — Fall comes in with festivals #Berkshireweekend
What I remember about FreshGrass festivals in the last 10 years or so is all over the map. It’s a mild fall day and I’m in the courtyard playing Farewell to Whiskey …
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International musicians enliven FreshGrass — #flashback
Yacouba Sissoko, one of the most sought-after kora musicians in the world, has joined a growing and global group of musicians who have come to the Berkshires for FreshGrass.
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Rana Santacruz brings Mexican folk to FreshGrass — #flashback
The tuning of a banjo blends into the tempo and strum of son jarocho, Mexican folk music from the Gulf coast, as Rana Santacruz sings his own original music.
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Books and bluegrass are sparking new stories — #berkshireweekend
She sang and she held the room in her hands. Her voice was clear alto, almost tenor, and guitar chords and percussion built an inexorable rythm in love and anger and grief. I can still remember shivering with it.
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FreshGrass tunes up at Mass MoCA
Sunny, breezy and Saturday morning — Tony Pisano plays the first run of a dance tune from Quebec, and fiddles, mandolin, guitars, standing bass and bodhran come in around him …
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Twisted Pine plays FreshGrass
In the expanding Boston bluegrass scene, the band Twisted Pine feels an energy in its free-shifting improvisation — like Irish music and jazz combined.
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FreshGrass impressions in early fall
Any day that begins with Sandy Boys played fast under the upside down trees and ends with an actor and a musician invoking the entire force of the people of Troy … is a good day.
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