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David Grisman is generally from the bluegrass wing of nation music, but his music owes almost as very much to jazz since it does to traditional American folk influences. Because he couldn’t think about what to contact his unique, extremely elaborate, harmonically advanced cross types of acoustic bluegrass, folk, and …

A significant cult figure among progressive bluegrass aficionados, Peter Rowan participated in several adventurous projects in the later ’60s and ’70s before getting into an extremely productive solo career. Mainly a guitarist, Rowan also sang, yodeled, and performed various members from the mandolin family members. He was created in 1942 …

For a while within the mid- to past due ’60s, it seemed as if Boston might end up being the East Coast’s response to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — it never happened, but if it had, Globe Opera had nearly as good a go as some of being the East …