Word: bluegrass
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Conventional wisdom watch. Best trends on campus: saddle shoes, bluegrass, the '40s. (And you through that you were the only one who went to see High Lonesome at the Carpenter Center...
...self-referencing. This morning. when FM was brushing its teeth and thinking over its day, FM realized that a shocking number of articles in FM had to do with FM. Needless to say, FM decided to act, and fast. So no more FM in FM. (Although bluegrass and saddle shoes are still the best new trends...
...show climaxed when the night's performers joined together on stage for two encores. After everyone except Sampou (who was already doing another gig in Somerville) crowded on stage to do the bluegrass classic "John Hardy," a boisterous standing ovation brought them back for one last loose cover of Eric Clapton's "Lay Down Sally...
Local folk and bluegrass freaks who missed Friday's show should not despair: this spring's folk lineup features a suprising number of worldclass masters. This year's Women in Folk Rock show at the Somerville Theater is March 12, and Northern Lights will be playing April 30 along with The Austin Lounge Lizards and Ranch Romance, also at the Somerville...
...show of the year will be, without a doubt, the March 20 engagement featuring the best guitarist on the bluegrass scene today, Tony Rice. Rice, who has vacillated back and forth for almost twenty years between intensely jazzed-up acoutic instrumentals and more traditional bluegrass, has not played in Boston for three years and is coming to Somerville with his instrumental outfit, The Tony Rice Unit. Joining him is master dobroist Jerry Douglas; Southern Rail, perennial local favorites, complete this not-to-be missed triple bill...