Chantel mcgregor

Inspiring the wider music world…

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.

LAST YEAR, IN the middle of a solo on stage, Ally Venable had a revelation. “I was playing so many shows that it started to become kind of a monotonous blur,” she says. “I noticed I was playing to my

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

With her diverse new album full of amazing playing, there are changes afoot for the Grammy Award-winning acoustic-guitar virtuoso as she takes a few steps away from her bluegrass roots

The chart-topping musician’s bestselling memoir lit a new creative flame within her. She tells Shannon Mahanty what’s coming next