Fifty‑three summers in, RockyGrass Festival 2025 proved once again why this storied bluegrass music festival is the friendliest family reunion on Earth—only your cousins play twin fiddles, your auntie can shred a banjo break, and total strangers hand you a tube and drag you into the St. Vrain River for a cooldown between sets. Nestled in Lyons, Colorado, Planet Bluegrass wove legends, young guns, and barefoot toddlers into a single, sun‑splashed storyline. Here’s how RockyGrass 2025 unfurled, tarp run to starry finale.

Passim has announced that the acclaimed Celtic music groups Altan and Old Blind Dogs will headline the 23rd annual Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest), taking place January 15-18, 2026 in Cambridge and Somerville. On Friday, January 16, BCMFest will head to Arts at the Armory in Somerville for a concert with one of Scotland’s greatest traditional bands, Old Blind Dogs and one of the most iconic bands in Irish history Altan takes the stage for the Nightcap Finale on Saturday, January 17 at the Somerville Theatre.

The 2025 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival wrapped up five unforgettable days of music, sunset, and community this past weekend at the scenic Walsh Farm in the Great Northern Catskills. With picture-perfect weather and music fans from more than 30 states and a dozen countries, this year’s festival was one of the most successful to date.

For 25 years, Pickathon has been one of America's most acclaimed discovery engines for music, a legendary launching pad for future icons like Tyler Childers, Billy Strings, Khruangbin, and Lake Street Dive. But that same spirit of discovery now fuels a revolutionary new vision.

After completing a massive conservation project in Barre, Massachusetts last year – one that has permanently protected over 800 acres of fields, forests and farmland – Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust and Stone Cow Brewery are teaming up once again to host their third annual Fields & Forest Forever Music Fest to celebrate and benefit local land conservation on Saturday, August 2.

You have to get up and get out to uncover the hidden jewels of this world. Naturalists, art connoisseurs, and music fans are always mining for gems; the revelation of an unknown vista, an emerging artist, or a hot new band is the reward for their digging. We are on our way to Manchester, Vermont, for the Dead of Summer Festival. The Green Mountains invite us to step outside, breathe the clean air, and enjoy the clear blue skies.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) is very proud to share the initial lineup for its silver anniversary in San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Park from Friday, October 3 to Sunday, October 5.

The 2025 Lowell Folk Festival officially kicks off on Friday July 25th at 6:15pm with Dynasty Productions from nearby Lawrence, MA, leading a Trinidadian Carnival Parade through the streets of Lowell, culminating at Boarding House Park with the Parade of Flags representing the wide range of cultures found in the Merrimack Valley.

Highbridge Hills is truly sacred ground for disc golfers across the Midwest. Tucked away in the rolling forests of northern Wisconsin, it’s a place that whispers magic on any given day. Add three days of live music, perfect weather, and a crowd of disc lovers itching to dance after a round, and it becomes something else entirely.

I do not typically attend music festivals two years in a row. As a journalist who reviews festivals, I usually choose different ones each season, circling back only every few years to see how promoters have improved things. Yet over the Fourth of July weekend, I found myself once again at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park for the Grassfire Festival—barely a year since my last visit.