THROUGH THE LENS: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025 — All the Roots Music Stars Descended from the Heavens
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THROUGH THE LENS: Baseball & Roots Music — Two Great American Pastimes Converge At The Innings & Extra Innings Festivals
What is more American than roots music and baseball? To celebrate both, the Innings Festival (February 20-22, 2026) and Extra Innings Festival (February 27 & 28, 2026), were held at Tempe Beach Park in Tempe, Arizona during baseball’s spring training.
While baseball originated in the 1840s, the first officially
BONUS TRACKS: No Depression Fellowships and More Roots Music News about Utah Phillips, from Shakey Graves, and More
No Depression is thrilled to announce two incredible writing opportunities funded by our nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation, in honor of our 30th year of publishing. Two established writers, authors, and previous No Depression contributors, Erin Osmon and Annie Zaleski, have been awarded the inaugural No Depression Criticism Fellowships. They
THROUGH THE LENS: Wintergrass Festival 2026 Celebrated the Radical Traditional!
For its 33rd edition, the Wintergrass Festival (February 19-22, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington) pulled out all the stops to celebrate traditional roots music and its evolution.
The fest's self-proclaimed theme was “Rad Trad! Listen, Learn, Belong.” With performances by Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger,