Des Moines Bluegrass

09/16/2026

We’ve got a salon tonight! Trying to pick? Trying to get into picking? Do it with us! DM for details!

07/29/2026

Why yes, you had assumed correctly! There in fact will be a bluegrass salon tonight. Come with pickin’ in mind @ 6:30PM! DM for deets!

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07/15/2026

Driving back from a week in Minnesota and have become aware it is the third Wednesday of the month so they ought to be a Bluegrass salon tonight.

Could I get an idea of who might be planning on coming should it go down? You can comment here, message, or text me. Just puttin feelers out.

07/01/2026

With tomorrow being the first Wednesday of the month, a salon is to commence! Do it first and third Wednesday.

If you want to play bluegrass and fbluegrass adjacent music with intention, are into listening to the group more than yourself, and want to have some musical conversations then you should definitely come! 6 PM. DM for more deets.

06/16/2026

It’s nearly the 3rd Wednesday of the month, and that means s salon is to take place. Please direct message me here if you don’t know the details. Hope to see some good people darkening my door!

06/11/2026

“The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.” -Duke Ellington

An emphasis on listening is common among high-level musicians. Why do you think that is?

In various schools of meditation, an emphasis is put on returning to the breath once you’re pulled into your thoughts. A focus on the breath provides a constant rhythmic stimulus to bring you back into a state of tranquility and the experience of watching thoughts come and go.

Listening is your best practice as something to fall back on when you become self-conscious, sense chaos emerging, or aren’t sure what to do. Focus on the collective output as the breath. When your attention returns to the group’s sound, you’re pulled back into the music and out of your thoughts.

“If I knew where the music was going, I wouldn’t bother playing it.” -Keith Jarrett

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06/10/2026

Music is a language and a jam is a conversation. Think about the best conversations you’ve ever had.

Do you have to struggle to be heard?

Is everyone talking over each other?

Are you considering the point others are making and giving thought to your own responses?

These are things that should be considered when going to play music with folks.

It’s not a speech, it’s not an argument, it’s not a presentation. It’s an exchange that feels profound when done right.

06/03/2026

As much as I like seeing people playing music when I get on social media, it seems it might be that the tilt toward people using musical energy for that may be causing the playing with other people in the real world to diminish. A small concentrated group of high investment energy from a few in real life is being sacrificed for the hypothetical low investment energy of many remotely.

Help curb the trend! Pick tunes with people in the world!

06/02/2026

A reminder that another salon is due to happen tomorrow evening at 6! If it occurs to you to do so, please let me know if you’re planning on coming. DM or even comment here!