Fans of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music will be in heaven this weekend in Tuscaloosa. The 2025 Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship will be held Feb. 22 on the Martin Campus of Shelton ...

The sound of bluegrass music filled the air Saturday during the Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship at Shelton State Community College. The festival featured arts, crafts, food vendors, a ...

Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...

“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 ...

One of the all-time greats of bluegrass, Del McCoury, quietly passed through Marin County last week, playing a sold-out ...

"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 ...

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 ...

With a bluegrass concert and dance series this weekend and the 19 th Midwinter Singing Festival next weekend, Ten Pound Fiddle is heating up the cold winter days. At 7:30 p.m., on Friday, Jan. 26, ...

After 42 years building and repairing hundreds of stringed instruments, Mark Bluett is retiring and passing his business on ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, the Midwinter Bluegrass Festival has been bringing together pickers from across the Front Range. While there are plenty of opportunities in Colorado for music fans to see ...

Joanna Ridgway, managing director and head of the southwest region for Santander Bank, began playing classical violin at the age of 3. But after graduating from Rhodes College with a business ...