From a young age, Michael Cleveland knew he was meant to play the fiddle. Cleveland has received numerous awards for his fiddle playing and, with his band Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, won the ...

Pat Kay plays banjo with his band the Kay Brothers Traditional bluegrass music is a melting pot. It has roots in Appalachian, Celtic and jazz music, and musicologists trace the origins of the banjo ...

Bluegrass, which sounds as old as the hills, actually was invented in the 1940s by Monroe, Scruggs, Flatt, Chubby and a handful of other Southern boys. They played acoustic string instruments (fiddle, ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum will start its fall group music lessons on Nov. 4. And by the time the lessons end of Dec. 16, students will be ready to perform Christmas songs at local ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the age of four, Michael Cleveland has always wanted to play music. His grandparents took him to his first bluegrass shows as a young child and for him it was love at first note ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

Like everyone else in her Pittsburgh family, Sue Cunningham was raised playing classical music. But Cunningham, who was trained on violin and played in orchestras from the age of 12, began to see the ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

“It was a pleasure to induct Randall Franks into our Music Hall of Fame,” said LaDonna Ray, co-executive director. Franks, of Ringgold, thrilled the audience with a high-energy fiddle rendition of ...

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This tune is thelead single to from her upcoming studio album, Distance And Time, which will be released on July 17. It also marks her third release on Dark Shadow Recording. It is upbeat, catchy, and ...