Jeff Hanna

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. Filmmaker Michael Moore, who started a summer film festival five years ago in his adopted hometown of Traverse City, is teaming with Emmy winner Jeff Garlin to organize a mid-winter comedic counterpart. Read More

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Filmmaker Michael Moore, who started a summer film festival five years ago in his adopted hometown of Traverse City, is teaming with Emmy winner Jeff Garlin to organize a mid-winter comedic counterpart. Read More

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. Filmmaker Michael Moore, who started a summer film festival five years ago in his adopted hometown of Traverse City, is teaming with Emmy winner Jeff Garlin to organize a mid-winter comedic counterpart. Read More

Pat Newell, Brian Golden, Melissa Stagnaro, Jeff Genung, Melissa deCordova and Tyler Murphy – wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas! Read More

Jeff, we've covered so many tracks for Mellowmas. Read More

jeff wrote: Purple Koolaid... having lost to th... Read More

A song closely associated with one of the most influential bands in modern country music is joining the Grammy Hall of Fame. The 1970 recording of 'Mr. Bojangles' by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band , written by Jerry Jeff Walker , will be inducted into the Hall of Fame for 2010. Read More

It's pretty unlikely that a band will be able to create exciting, moving new music consistently over more than four decades, but The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has done just that. Read More

The NGDB formed in summer of '66 as a notional way of "not working for a living". Read More

"'66 is when we started playing together and getting paid. We were a jug band, which is a really rootsy concoction, music that was mostly written in the '30s or before. A lot of blues and skiffle and country elements. Old-timey country music. Mountainy stuff. And then we went through a growing phase when some of the guys left and a couple of other guys joined in '69, and retooled as a country rock band. At that point there were three or four groups really playing that kind of music, the Burritos (Flying Burrito Brothers) and Poco. The Band, of course, was a huge influence on us. There's was a melding of Americana, which as a musical phrase didn't exist before ... Read More