An amp, a microphone and small audience sit on a wooden deck in the spring heat on a Saturday in April. With all eyes locked onto the performer, the audience of about 30 was silent. For North ...

The last time John Yelland hosted GrillFest, a backyard music festival and barbeque, was over a decade ago. But the memories, like an earworm of a song, have stuck with him ever since. “It was very ...

You can take the Medin family yard out of the Backyard Bash, but you can’t stop the music. The musician-centered, Nerstrand-based fest returns for a fourth year Saturday, July 25 — and it’s going ...