Come enjoy America's best bluegrass and acoustic music with your friends and fellow music lovers!
Concerts
Rock Hearts
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Cafe Amici, 1640 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT at 7:00 pm. Tickets $30
Our most exciting New England bluegrass band, they have been topping charts and and thrilling crowds all over the US. Featuring CT's Austin Scelzo and Rick Brodsky.
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7 tickets left as of April 3rd.
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​Joe Deetz, banjo
Alex MacLeod, guitar
Billy Thibodeau, mandolin
Rick Brodsky, bass
Austin Scelzo, fiddle​​​​​​​​​​
Luke Bulla
Friday, April 18, 2025 7:00 PM
House Concert 166 Mather Street, Hamden, CT
Tickets $30​
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Another fantastic house concert, this time it's master fiddle player Luke Bulla. Luke won the National Fiddle contest seven times. He got his first Grammy playing with Ricky Skaggs. He became a member of the John Cowan Band, and then played for 14 years with Lyle Lovett.
Luke has performed and/or recorded with Brandi Carlile, Jim Lauderdale, Darrell Scott, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Kevin Costner & Modern West, Russ Barenberg Trio, Shawn Colvin, Tony Rice, Chris Thile, Peter Rowan, Patty Griffin, Glen Phillips, Rodney Crowell, and Earl Scruggs, to name a few.
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Luke is a fantastic guitarist, and a wonderful songwriter with a great voice.
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This is his second trip to GuitartownCT.​
Missy Raines &
Allegheny
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Cafe Amici
1640 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT
7:30 PM
Tickets $35
Missy Raines bass
Ben Garnett guitar
Eli Gilbert banjo
Ellie Hakanson fiddle
Tristan Scroggins mandolin
After 14 IBMA awards and a Grammy nomination, Missy Raines gets back to her bluegrass roots with this fantastic young band!
They also sold out last time at Cafe Amici!
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Podcast
Got 'Grass? Click the logo above, to hear your favorite bluegrass stars tell their stories. It's more than just "picks and strings".
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These musicians have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us, and are open and eloquent in discussing their lives, their music, and their hopes and dreams.
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I hope you enjoy these conversations.​
Tammy Rogers
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​​Fiddle star Tammy Rogers has been a huge force in country and bluegrass, from her early days touring with Trisha Yearwood and Patty Loveless, through her twenty years with The Steel Drivers. Also a fine singer and songwriter, she has a great love and admiration for the music, which comes through loud and clear in her words and her playing. A real treat to talk to. ​​
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​​​​Podcast Episodes: Season One
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Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Missy Raines, Phil Rosenthal, Doyle Lawson, Justin Moses, Todd Phillips. Rhonda Vincent, Luke Bulla, Mark Schatz, Rob Ickes, David Grier, John Reischman, Mike Compton, Clay Hess, Caroline Owens, Amanda Cook and Tim O'Brien, Dan Tyminski, Bryan Sutton, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Danny Paisley, Kenny & Amanda Smith, Trey Hensley, The Honey Dewdrops​​, Deanie Richardson, Jesse Brock, Tony Trischka, Jon Weisberger, Michael Daves, Larry Sparks, Joe K. Walsh,
Podcast Episodes: Season Two
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Sierra Hull, Alice Gerrard, Max Wareham, Bronwyn Keith Hynes, Cathy Fink, Peter Rowan, Ron Stewart, Mason Via, Tammy Rogers
Just added: Richard Greene​​​
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Jams
The next bluegrass jam at Best Video will be Sunday,
April 27, from 3:00-5:30 pm.
There's always plenty of bluegrass for players of all levels, along with the usual mirth and merriment! Free, but a $5 donation to support Best Video is appreciated.
Past concert photos
Tim O'Brien and Bryan Sutton
Oct. 2012 Unitarian Society Hall, Hamden
CT Music Scene
Check out Westchester Bluegrass Club
presenting great live music in Purdys, NY.​
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04.03 Greg Cahill & Special Consensus
04.13 Michael Daves & Nate Sabat
04.27 Mark Cosgrove & Good Medicine
05.11 High Horse with Kat Wallace
05.31 Tom Cassell Band
06.15 County Line
07.06 Zolla Boys
07.27 Chris Jones and the Night Drivers
08.13 Jacob Jolliff Band
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