The long-anticipated NRBQ tribute disc is set for release this spring. Entitled The Q People it will include contributions from Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Steve Earle, Mike Mills and Widespread Panic (Panic drummer Todd Nance’s Barbara Cue project first came together to interpret the music of NRBQ)……
On Thursday night at the Grand Portland Ballroom in Portland, Tony Furtado became the latest notable to perform with String Cheese Incident on its Almost Winter Tour. Furtado who played guitar when he sat in with the Big Wu this past weekend focussed on banjo for much of the second set and encore……
Guitarist Will Bernard has assembled Motherbug for one east coast gig this Sunday at NYC’s Tribeca. Bernard will be joined by the Duo (aka Marco Benevento on keys and Joe Russo on drums). He then returns home for two Bay Area gigs prior to the T.J. Kirk Reunion at the Great American Music Hall on December 26 and 27…..

Luke ‘Patchen’ Montgomery became the latest musician to sit in with “a440”:http://www.a440.com. The band, joined recently on stage by members of Umphrey’s McGee, invited Patchen up for its own ‘Tomorrow My Friend’ which segued into ‘Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys.’