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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

OSTENSIBLY THE STORY of mandolin master David Grisman’s musical collaborations with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dawg often comes across as a paean to Garcia with a conveniently narrow, ...

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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 ...

David Grisman and Jerry Garcia met as young folk-roots fans-cum-musicians attending a Bill Monroe concert in 1964. Garcia, as you may have heard, went on to form the Grateful Dead; when the Dead began ...

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 ...

101 Fanny Hill / Bill Keith, David Grisman, Del McCoury. Mandolin,Banjo,Guitar 102 Sugar Hill Ramble / Bill Keith, David Grisman, Del McCoury. Mandolin,Banjo,Guitar 103 Little Maggie / Bill Keith, ...