Sam Grisman and Peter Rowan revive Dawg music at EKU concert Oct. 17, 2025. Grisman draws on family legacy and Old and in the Way repertoire nightly. Sam Grisman Project shows genre flexibility, ...

For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating “dawg” music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic ...

Last night, a unique event unfolded at Seattle’s Moore Theatre as the bluegrass greats gathered to celebrate David “Dawg” Grisman’s 80th birthday. The eclectic assemblage of family, friends, and ...

At the Birchmere on Tuesday night, David Grisman noted that his quintet is now 26 years old, though he's the only original member left. "I just keep offering myself raises and that seems to work," ...

Jerry Garcia’s trusted bluegrass partner, David Grisman, does not make many public appearances these days. Before Friday night’s arrival in Seattle, the artist hadn’t played in front of a live ...

It’s hard to keep a secret. Especially a really good secret. By the time the faithful crowd of bluegrassers and jam rockers filed into the Moore Theatre on Tuesday for a rare performance from David ...

It may not be common knowledge, but for some years a titan of American bluegrass has resided in Seattle’s backyard. David “Dawg” Grisman, a mandolinist and composer whose improvisatory licks have made ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Ticket are on sale for the David Grisman Quintet in concert at the Big Sky Pavilion Saturday, ...

On Thursday, July 19th, the David Grisman Quintet featuring guitarist Frank Vignola, will perform his unique variety of bluegrass and gypsy music referred to as “dawg music". They will perform at 7pm ...

He might have grown up in a conservative New Jersey family, but David Grisman wound up creating a big part of the catchy, syncopated sound that defined the Bay Area's free-wheeling folk scene in the ...

In 1968, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman met in the parking lot of a bluegrass festival at Sunset Park in West Grove, Pennsylvania. That serendipitous meeting started a relationship that five years ...