And to ensure the best odds that I eventually break free from the physical and emotional freeze, I tabbed my unstoppable ...

“Bluegrass is very community-based,” says mandolinist Patrick Kerrigan Fitzsimons, one of the founders of the academy. “You don’t need fancy equipment. You just carry your instrument, sit in a circle ...

Isn't everything supposed to slow down during the Dead of Winter? The holiday buzz is over, the nights drag on in extended darkness and a sense of - and perhaps need for - hibernation begins to close ...