CARBONDALE — A popular folk and bluegrass band with Chicago roots will bring its unique styling Southern Illinois this weekend. Cornmeal, a band known for blending lightning-fast tempos and impeccable ...

One of the Midwest's most promising young Americana groups, Cornmeal, began eight years ago in Chicago as a musical side project for string bassist Chris Gangi. It since has become a jam-band ...

Chicago’s premier bluegrass band, Cornmeal, has been performing for more than 10 years now, and they gain ground every time they go on the road. They continue to forge a path that is all their own, ...

The band called Cornmeal, which returns to the River Music Experience’s Redstone Room on Friday night, started out as a traditional bluegrass unit. Since then, the five-piece group from Chicago has ...

Cornmeal continues to forge a path all their own, pushing the boundaries of bluegrass, Americana and folk for a whole new generation of music lovers. Steeped in the tradition of musical acts such as ...

Since forming nearly a decade ago in Chicago, Cornmeal has become a "jam band" juggernaut spending six months or more each year traveling across the United States as its popularity continues to grow ...

There always has been connective tissue between American roots music and its eclectic electric offspring, the jam band genre. If you look at the Grateful Dead as the progenitors of the jam band scene ...

HUNTINGTON — Founded in Chicago over a decade ago, Cornmeal blends an eclectic mix of bluegrass, progressive rock, and jam band road ethics. Fresh off their first live release, Live in Chicago, IL Vol ...

More than 100 years ago, deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains, it was customary for musicians to sprinkle cornmeal across the dance floor before every performance. It was believed that this ...