Co-founder of the GRAMMY award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops and a MacArthur grant winner among other accolades, the singer/banjo player/fiddler Rhiannon Giddens masterfully blends American musical genres such as gospel, jazz, blues, and country, showcasing her extraordinary emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess. Giddens also won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for “Omar,” an innovative … Continued
GRAMMY and BAFTA Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Lukas Nelson has established himself as one of music’s most respected voices. Throughout his esteemed career, Nelson has released eight studio albums including his latest, 2023’s Sticks and Stones. Since its release, the album spent 18 weeks in the top 10 of the Americana Albums chart and … Continued
With a celebrated discography including 2005’s gold-selling Warrior’s Code and the near double-platinum classic “I’m Shipping Up To Boston,” these underdogs turned champions have quietly moved 8 million-plus units worldwide. Whether you caught a legendary gig at The Rathskeller (The Rat) under Kenmore Square, found the band by taking the T to Newbury Comics to cop Do Or … Continued
Alsarah & the Nubatones were born out of many dinner conversations between Alsarah and Rami El Aasser about nubian ‘songs of return’, modern migration patterns and the cultural exchanges between Sudan and Egypt. A common love for the richness of pentatonic sounds, and shared migration experiences, expanded the conversation to include armenian – american oud player … Continued
Becky Buller is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter from St. James, Minn., who has traversed the globe over performing bluegrass music to underwrite her insatiable songwriting habit. Her compositions can be heard on records by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, to name just a few. Becky has written songs for Grammy … Continued
Grammy Award–winning singer, songwriter, and musician Molly Tuttle and her band, Golden Highway, released their latest album, City of Gold, this past July on Nonesuch Records. City of Gold follows Tuttle’s acclaimed 2022 record, Crooked Tree, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards and led NPR Music to call her “a … Continued
We’re thrilled to welcome multi-platinum artist, Elle King to the FreshGrass | Bentonville stage! King’s lead single and fourth radio No. 1 hit “Shame” made her the only act in history to have scored #1 singles on the Adult Pop Songs, Adult Alternative Songs, Alternative Songs and Country Airplay charts. Her hit “Ex’s & Oh’s” … Continued
FreshScores are new original scores to films–usually short, usually silent–that FreshGrass commissions each year from several artists. The scores have all premiered at FreshGrass at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and The Momentary in Bentonville, AR, with the artist performing live as the films are screened. This has become a signature element of the … Continued
Instrumental music is truly among the most ethereal and inspiring artistic forms of creativity. FreshGrass will explore a reinterpretation of the classical music form, the concerto, into the modern world of roots music. The concerto is the ideal platform for a virtuoso player (or players) to celebrate their skills in a way that is already … Continued
Melissa Carper’s lifelong, steadfast listening has come to fruition in the songs on Ramblin‘ Soul. Her childhood love of the family record collection planted the seeds of what is her own bountiful orchard today. It’s a tricky thing that Carper has done. She clearly revels in recreating the music of her heroes, carefully preserving the … Continued
