I love going for bike rides. It helps me reconnect and recenter myself. I'm almost always listening to music when I go out for a ride. Sometimes it's heavier/angrier stuff to help me process and burn some things off, sometimes it's completely instrumental to help me think, but most of the time it's laid-back music…

As humans, we have a history of turning to story for comfort, direction, and preservation – a way to keep the present alive in the future. Story can be found in books, poetry, song, and our minds and mouths. This playlist starts with our song, "Once Upon a Time," which was born of our turning…

BGS first had the opportunity to work with singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Kaia Kater all the way back in 2016. She appeared on our inaugural Shout & Shine showcase stage that year at the International Bluegrass Music Association's business conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was the first ever showcase celebrating diversity at the…

Music is so colorful, whether the lyrics have actual color words, carry a deeper meaning, are just stylistically vibrant, or paint a mental picture without using words at all. Music is meant to reach down and touch your soul in all kinds of ways, evoking special emotions and calling to mind familiar times. As a…

We all grew up in rural Ireland in small communities in the midlands around County Offaly and County Tipperary. From a young age we were brought up with traditional Irish music, learning the tunes and playing in local sessions. Bluegrass was never a part of our musical upbringing, however, little did we know how strong…