February 2018 – The Brewgrass Chronicle

Georgia’s The Barbaric Yawps are a 700 Miles of Hard Driving Bluegrass Band

February 24, 2018 BGchronicle Events, Profiles

You have to really love playing bluegrass to play a room like the Grotto Pub. It’s not that they don’t try. They have decent sound equipment, one of those little systems with an iPad app to control it. But the speakers are aimed askew, an effort, I am guessing, to reach the corners of the room, which is dominated by two big pillars that sit what you might think of as center stage, second row.[…]

Like Ernie Banks, Jody Mosser says Let’s Play Two (or even three)

February 22, 2018 BGchronicle Events, Interviews, Profiles

There is a certain synchronicity between the start of baseball spring training and what is going down Saturday night at the Abbey Bar in Harrisburg. Those ballplayers down in Florida, or out in Arizona, have an extremely busy summer ahead. Over the course of 187 days, they will play 162 games. That works out to 15 days off in roughly six months. Sure, they will get a couple more days off for rainouts, but the[…]

Larry Keel at home on the water and on the stage

February 19, 2018 BGchronicle Events, Interviews, Profiles

Larry Keel is headed back to the Elk Creek Cafe and Aleworks on Saturday. It will be the second year in a row that he’s played that intimate little room in Milheim, Pa. in late February. It’s a pattern Keel needs to put an end to. Not because Elk Creek Cafe is a small venue. No, there are few places better to go for a night of live music. The food — farm to table[…]

Dave Brown and the Dishonest Fiddlers offer up a sneak preview of the upcoming album

February 16, 2018 BGchronicle Uncategorized

Our friend, Dave Brown, and his band, the Dishonest Fiddlers, have been in the studio working on a new album they hope to release next month. They will be playing stuff from the upcoming album Saturday night at Mountain Sky for the Year of the Dawg event, including this number, Steamtown Blues, which Dave was kind enough to slip us a rough cut of. This is not what will be the finished version when the[…]

Dawg gone good time on tap at Mountain Sky this weekend

February 15, 2018 BGchronicle Events

Back in the fall, when it looked as if there would be nothing musical going on in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Beth Cornetta Oros started thinking about taking matters into her own hands. “Dave Brown and I were talking about New Years Eve. Nothing had been announced yet for Cabinet,” Oros explains. “Then the Cabinet show at the Kirby was announced, so I thought, why not do it for Chinese New Years.” O.K., if you want to[…]