Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Matisyahu As musical and cultural boundaries bend and blend, there was bound to be a Hasidic Jew singing rasta music. Read More

"We were on stage playing. Of course, we had played there several times by then and we were well known for being a party inciter. And we were playing and we were going long and they were trying to get us off stage." Read More

There's a commonly held belief that the greatest musicians are tortured, difficult people who are hard to live with, even to be around. Read More

I first came to the festival two years ago (and I'm listening to the Jeff Tweedy set from that year as I write) and of course fell in love with the park as a venue for live music. Read More

Singer-songwriter Joe Ely has been in love with trains his whole life. Read More

Music was the only path for Colin Gilmore, even though he didn't totally commit to it until his mid-20s. Read More

This weekend's Chicago Country Music Festival has moved for the second time in as many years. Read More

In its second year since splitting off from the Taste of Chicago, the Chicago Country Music Festival moves from the parkland surrounding Soldier Field north to Grant Park, where it will present two days of free country, roots rock, and honky-tonk this Saturday and Sunday. Read More

Only in hindsight does it seem as if Ms. Williams's career was a smooth, ever-climbing journey toward excellence and acclaim. Read More

Golden Gate Park's biggest musical event, the always-free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, returns this weekend with another impressively rich and varied collection of roots music. Read More