Lily O'Brien

When Mario Guarneri was just 13 years old, he played trumpet onstage in a concert with jazz legend Louis Armstrong. The life-changing experience, which...

As the memories of three days full of easy, breezy, bluegrassy music from the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco begin to...

“Each show is an adventure,” says singer/songwriter Jesse Colin Young, who formed a new band with his son last year. “It’s a thrill.” “It’s...

By Lily O’Brien “We call ourselves the musketeers,” says Sebastian Saint James, guitarist and lead singer for The Highway Poets, about he and his bandmates....

By Lily O’Brien Although ‘multicultural’ is a controversial term in the current political climate in this country, in the world of music, it’s a celebrated...

By Lily O’Brien “I have this commitment right now to just follow my heart when it comes to music,” says jazz guitarist Ila Cantor by...

By Lily O’Brien In an era when ’60s and ’70s tribute bands are all the rage (particularly this year, the 50th anniversary of the Summer...

By Lily O’Brien Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist David Lindley was deeply immersed in the 1960s Los Angeles music scene, a hotbed of creativity full of aspiring musicians—many...