Old Time music is the sound of the American dance floor before radio and records: fiddle tunes carried over from Britain, Ireland, Africa, and the European countryside, reshaped in the American South and Midwest, and passed hand to hand with little written down. It is the taproot of both bluegrass… Read More
Blues is often called the root of all American music, and like other regional forms — the Delta, Chicago, Piedmont — it took on its own distinct character wherever it landed. In the Central Valley, that regional sound is West Fresno Blues, forged in the small clubs of Fresno’s Westside,… Read More
Evo Bluestein is an American folk musician, cultural historian, and multi-instrumentalist. Raised in a household his folklorist father, Gene Bluestein, filled with the defining figures of American traditional music, Bluestein learned this music firsthand, at its primary source. Evo has spent five decades in professional performance; he plays fourteen instruments… Read More
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