Mike Compton and Joe Newberry collaborate with a vision that is both modern and ageless, digging deep into early country music, blues, and other heartbeat sounds of traditional music. Their performances at home and abroad, from the Grand Ole Opry and Prairie Home Companion in the U.S., to Australia's National Folk Festival and Glasgow's Celtic Read more about Compton and Newberry[…]
This show highlights the release of Fly With Them, a limited edition 45 RPM record by Wayward Mountaineers and Friends, a special project completed in honor of James. Please join us for a memorable afternoon of Americana, bluegrass and old-time music featuring Wayward Mountaineers, The Root Diggers, Old Jawbone, Michael Jonas Band and other special guests. Read more about Fly With Them: A special benefit concert for the Grandview Outdoor Trail at the Grandview Middle School (Ware, MO) in memory of James Evans[…]
Singer Songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist Dan Eubanks is most familiar to roots music fans as the longtime upright bassist for the long running bluegrass band Special Consensus out of Chicago. The band is known as a perennial favorite amongst bluegrass fans of all tastes and has been twice Grammy nominated for Best Bluegrass Album, once during Read more about Dan Eubanks Album Release with Michael Prewitt and Aaron Bibelhauser[…]
Vidar Skrede and Patrik Ahlberg join their Scandinavian fiddle forces together in this Norwegian-Swedish folk music duo – lynx lynx. The variety of strings includes fiddles, Hardanger fiddles, guitars, and even a mandolin. The mix of tunes is put together by both their original and traditional Nordic fiddle tunes. This is what music sounds like between Read more about Lynx Lynx[…]
Songbird Concerts is a St. Louis-based concert series with singer-songwriters performing their material in a stripped-down, intimate, in-the-round performance space, a format unique in STL. Come enjoy singer/songwriters Lyal Strickland, Natalie Huggins, Megan Rooney and Jeffrey Albert.
Despite growing up and living on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, WB Reid and Kristian Bugge have known about and followed each other's music for years, while they’ve met at jam sessions and festivals around the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in the fall of 2025, they played together on stage and that Read more about Kristian Bugge & W.B. Reid[…]
Nick Pence and Shane Devine together is a special collaboration. One in which everything feels familiar and new. Sounds reminiscent and experimental, lyrics haunting and humorous. Leaders in local original folk music, these two are both keeping alive and setting a new standard for original music coming out of St. Louis.
The Mound City Slickers play old-time string band music with passion, drive, and a great sense of humor. Hailing from the St. Louis region, The Slickers have played festivals, house concerts and more than a few contra and square dances throughout Missouri and Illinois. Steeped in tradition, their concerts are a unique mix of hard-driving Read more about Mound City Slickers[…]
For two decades, Rum Drum Ramblers have bridged the gap between pre-war string band country blues and post-war city blues, with a blend of deep-welled influences, instrumental prowess, and raw feeling. Mat Wilson (guitar, vocals), Ryan Koenig (harmonica, washboard, mandolin, fiddle, bones, vocals), and Joey Glynn (upright bass) have recorded two studio albums and have Read more about Rum Drum Ramblers[…]
Acoustic adventurers Stillhouse Junkies are returning to The Focal Point for their second appearance. They explore the worlds between roots, bluegrass, Texas swing, blues, and rock. Their free-flowing musical interplay and improvisation make every show unique as the trio weave through high-energy, intricately composed original songs, never taking the same path twice. Formed in 2017, the band consists of Read more about Stillhouse Junkies[…]
Alan Munde & Mason Ridge, comprised of a cadre of seasoned, blue blood bluegrass pickers and singers, perform center-cut bluegrass that comes from a mature collective approach to the music they love. Alan Munde is a renowned banjo player with a long list of recording and performance accomplishments, including Jimmy Martin, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and The Country Read more about Focal Point Friends of Old-Time Music presents Alan Munde & Mason Ridge[…]