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Rumpke Mountain Boys – High Time, Low Tide is available

The hard-touring Rumpkes (the band already has several big festival appearances on the horizon, including next week’s Suwannee Springfest in Florida, where the band plays alongside John Prine, Railroad Earth, The Infamous Stringdusters and numerous

Banjoist Hank Smith set to debut super-group at IBMA

Brian Paul Swenk | September 28, 2015 | Bluegrass Today “What if Bela’s Drive had the vocals of Chris Thile/Michael Daves?” You’ve probably never asked yourself that exact question, but I bet you’re imagining it

Photo set: Hot Brown Smackdown, Misty Mountain String Band, The Tunesmiths (Zanzabar, 5/26/16)

originally published in the Louisville Eccentric Observer.

Yelling Compliments – A Review of Terrapin Hill’s Cabin Fever Reliever

Throughout the year Top of the Knob Productions hosts a number of great events at their privately-owned organic farm in Harrodsburg, KY (Harvest Festival/Snuggleween). To kick off the festival season, Terrapin held it’s Cabin Fever

Dark Side of the Wall interview

The Dark Side of the Wall is not just another cover band made up of several members from other bands locally, in Louisville, Ky. Dark Side of the wall is a collective of multi -talented

Louisville Jug Music: From Earl McDonald to the National Jubilee

I was honored to just be mentioned in Michael Jone's book, entitled "Louisville Jug Music: From Earl McDonald to the National Jubilee". Go buy it! It's supremely informative about the emergence of what turned out

CHARLIE TRAVELER PRESENTS: An Evening With Blu Bop – Bela Fleck tribute @ The Altamont Theatre

CHARLIE TRAVELER PRESENTS: An Evening With Blu Bop - Bela Fleck tribute @ The Altamont Theatre WHERE: Altamont Theatre WHEN: Saturday January 25 COVER: $7adv. / $10d.o.s. AGES: All Ages! BLU BOP: The music of

Blu-Bop: A Tribute to the Music of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Announces Shows

Blu-Bop: A Tribute to the Music of Béla Fleck and The Flecktones have confirmed a few tour dates in Carolinas for January. The band-banjoist Hank Smith, drummer Mike Rosado, bassist E. Scott Warren, pianist Justin

PineCone: Blu-Bop: A Tribute to the Music of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones

Performed by Hank Smith (banjo), E Scott Warren (bass), Mike Auchter (drums), Justin W. Powell (piano), Lindsey Tims (guitar, mandolin, fiddle), Paul Messinger (harmonica), and Myron Koch (saxophone) Sertoma Amphitheater, 801 High House Road, Cary,

Cary Sertoma Series Welcomes Triangle-based Blu-Bop

Cary Sertoma Series Welcomes Triangle-based Blu-Bop First appearance for seven piece Bela Fleck and the Flecktones sound-alike Cary, NC – Spend an evening in Cary enjoying the bluegrass, fusion and post-bop of Bela Fleck and

Pink Floyd tribute band coming to Grand Theatre

The Grand Theatre welcomes back to its stage one of the nation’s premiere Pink Floyd tribute groups for a concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Dark Side of the Wall: A Pink Floyd Tribute presents

Vessel packs several approaches to American roots

Vessel may have a lot of different elements to its sound, but when it comes to the seven-piece band's overall mission, everybody seems to be on the same page. "You know that feeling (artists) get

Jamming with Vessel

Vessel has been Louisville's most formidable jam band for nine years, although one almost hates to lump them into that genre. Vessel certainly shares much with that scene, but the band is more dedicated to

MUSIC FESTIVAL MAKES MOVE TO LOUISVILLE’S MAIN STREET

Louisville, KY- The 10th Annual Peak Summit Groove and Dance Festival will descend upon “Arena Row” on Friday, August 19 and Saturday, August 20 from 8 p.m. to – 3 a.m. each night. A grand

PEAK SUMMIT FESTIVAL & VESSEL IN-STUDIO

It’s time again for the Peak Summit Groove & Dance Festival on Aug. 19-20 with the After-Party on the 21st. Now in its 10th year, founder Myron Koch tells us all about the festival plus

The Golden Road Music and Art Festival

Calling all deadheads! Head to The Golden Road Music and Art Festival held in Louisville for a fun-filled celebration and marathon tribute the music of the Grateful Dead. Festival goers party down to a bevy

Motherlodge Festival

Friday, April 3 at The Rudyard Kipling, Headliners, Monkey Wrench, Ear-x-tacy Panel discussion: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. With Motherlodge curator/creator Ray Rizzo, activist/artist Julia Steele Allen, a Squallis Puppet, and others TBA, The

Bear Creek Music Festival Pre-Party Dance Party with Zoogma

Article and Photos By: Erin Slayter - The Sweaty Mouse (www.thesweatymouse.com) Fairly new on the scene, Zoogma energizes the crowd with a seriously funktified dance party perfect to set the tone for a weekend of

Backseat Sandbar’s A Six Pack with Myron Koch of Peak Summit Fest

Thanks to Nicholas Hart for the fun interview. Backseat Sandbar is a Louisville-based music blog covering a variety of dance music throughout the midwest.

Paradigm: Melodies For Uncertain Robots

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI Paradigm's second album roams the free range of progressive jazz-rock fusion to harvest, thresh and bale every kaleidoscopic color and sound. It also clearly reflects the disparate makeup of this electric

SNAPSHOTS OF PEOPLE AT WORK; re: Myron Koch, festival guru

Peak Summit founder helps other top music events Name: Myron Koch. Age: 35. Title: Musician and event manager in Louisville. Company: Peak Summit (founder), member of the band Paradigm and manager of other festivals including

Peak Summit; dear Watson

BY JASON BUGG Saturday, Oct. 11 This year’s Peak Summit Groove and Dance Festival features a jam-packed day of music and happenings, just how founder Myron Koch planned it. “(The Festival) keeps getting bigger and

Paradigm Shift

This band of UofL instrumentalists is taking its show on the road By Joseph Lord Music schools are breeding grounds for experimental super-groups. Take Paradigm, which formed at the University of Louisville School of Music

SOUND EFFECTS; Peak Summit fest in groove

Music and art event at rotating venues has grown in its five years, but positive vibe is still part of it When Myron Koch founded the Peak Summit Groove and Dance Festival in 2002 his

Bigger and bolder, Summit Festival shows no signs of peaking

Paradigm: is one of the acts playing this year’s Peak Summit Festival. Next year, Myron Koch might need a staff. The founder of this weekend’s Peak Summit “dance and groove festival” has overseen an event