Folk, Bluegrass, Celtic Country? At Berklee? Or...a little story about the Folk Arts Quartet

Berklee has worked hard over the past several years to attract and nurture students from an ever widening array of musical genres. One result has been a growing community of musicians interested in Bluegrass, Celtic, Roots, Folk or hybrids thereof.

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this cool article

from "Cover Lay Down" about one band that formed at BCM! It says in part:

Someone’s doing something right at the Berklee College of Music. As a gathering place for talented musicians steeped in a variety of traditions, it has long held a reputation both a natural source for emerging artists and a hotbed of hybridization. You may not have realized it, but the odds are excellent that at least some of your own favorite artists attended the prestigious school, from Patty Larkin, Gillian Welch, Bruce Cockburn and Susan Tedeschi to Melissa Etheridge, Bill Frisell, Donald Fagin, Juliana Hatfield, Aimee Mann and John Mayer.