Hot Rize has been playing music for 32 and a half years, almost exactly half as long as some music historians date the beginning of bluegrass. “It all started with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys,” says ...
The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame opened in Owensboro, Ky., in 1991. Since its founding, musicians from 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have been inducted. But the inductees have largely been from ...
Hot Rize once played a show at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder with headliner Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. Today, the band is widely credited as a progenitor of progressive bluegrass. But ...
Back in the late ’70s, contemporary bluegrass music was a mixed bag. Taking the genre in new directions were bands like New Grass Revival and the David Grisman Quintet. Mostly outfitted in T-shirts, ...
Legendary Colorado bluegrass band Hot Rize has been chosen for the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, the first Colorado band ever inducted. Canada Suffers Blow from New Trump Tariff Ozzy Osbourne’s cause ...