For its third year, the Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival returns to its beachfront location at Sandy Point State Park along the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday and Sunday, September 20-21, 2025. People from all over the region and across North America celebrate in this picturesque destination while listening to the best in progressive bluegrass, improvisational jam, and American roots music. 

Internationally acclaimed guitar virtuoso Trace Bundy will bring his 17th Annual Acoustic Holiday concert to the Boulder Theater on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., with the show starting at 7:00 p.m. Reserved seated tickets go on sale Friday, September 5 at 10:00 a.m. via Z2 Entertainment. This all-ages event welcomes fans of every generation (under 16 must be accompanied by an adult).

Hot Tuna—the iconic American blues rock duo of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady—has been delivering profound musical experiences to fans around the world for over six decades. This year is especially momentous, with Jorma celebrating his 85th birthday, Jefferson Airplane marking their 60th anniversary, the discovery and release of Reno Road on Culture Factory USA, and Acoustic Hot Tuna’s nationwide tour.

Jorma’s 85th Birthday Celebration

On October 1st at San Francisco’s Presidio Theatre, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi will join Steve Earle, special unannounced guests, and the evening’s house band, Sam Grisman Project, to gather in support of Camp Winnarainbow—a circus & performing arts haven for young people, founded in 1975 by hippie icons Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney.

Spafford once again proved why they are one of the most adventurous bands on the jam scene, delivering a weekend highlight at the ADK Festival with a surprise cover of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ “Impression That I Get.”

Powerhouse guitarist-vocalist Ana Popovic returns with her new album, "Dance To The Rhythm" (Electric Heel Records; Release Date: September 26, 2025 digital, October 30, 2026 physical street date). 'Dance to the Rhythm’ blends searing blues style with elements of rock, R&B, soul and funk to create a unique sound that is intriguing and powerful, unpredictable and new, but unmistakably her very own.

Penned in honor of The Cranberries’ frontwoman for O’Shea’s forthcoming album, “Songs in the Key of O”, with producer/co-writer and two-time Grammy winner Marc Swersky, O’Shea enrolled the talented Barry Murphy - lead singer of  fellow Limerick act Hermitage Green - to join her on this special tribute with his stunning vocal and dulcet tones. 

When The Barr Brothers finally broke their eight-year silence, they did not return alone for their new single “English Harbour.” Brad and Andrew Barr are joined by longtime friend Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Joice Adams of Arc Iris. Together these voices lift the track into something that feels like fate. It’s the third preview on their forthcoming album Let It Hiss (out Oct. 17), a project that does not just mark a comeback but a re-awakening within the band.

Brian Gore, the acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist and founder of International Guitar Night, has teamed up with Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven for a powerful new collaboration. Their single, “Jangled Mind,” arrives October 14th and offers a haunting carnival metaphor for a fractured psyche.

As fans entered Golden Gate Park for a bittersweet third day of this year’s Outside Lands, audiences prepared themselves for the eclectic lineup to come. The feeling of community was strongly presented on the stages that day, with a robust lineup featuring artists on the cusp of breaking through, those at the height of their fame, some amidst a career-defining rebrand, and everything in between.