John Reischman and the Jaybirds, who are well known in the bluegrass and folk music community, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, ...
Bluegrass has always been a music by and for the masses. One of the pioneers of the feel-good fast-pickin’ genre in the 1940s ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with bluegrass musician Billy Strings and his dad who taught him how to play guitar, Terry Barber, about their new album, "Me/And/Dad." Billy Strings was born into music, like, ...
Born on this day in 1931 in Thousandsticks, Kentucky, Bobby Osborne and younger brother Sonny helped expand the parameters of bluegrass music when they formed a musical group in the ’60s. From then on ...
Before Vince Gill became a bluegrass legend in his own right, he was an aspiring multi-instrumentalist looking up to the great musicians who had come before him, and the Stanley Brothers were ...
When Del McCoury needs a new song, he doesn't enlist a cohort of co-writers or entrust one of Music Row's famed publishing houses. He goes to the mailbox. Songwriters — from Canada to California and, ...
Update Friday, Sept. 27: The International Bluegrass Music Association announced yesterday that the Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival in Wilmington, Ohio won the 2024 event of the year award over ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A young woman ...
McCoury's been prominent in bluegrass since the 1960s, when he performed in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. His new album, with sons Rob and Ronnie, in an energetic work that also takes a dark turn.
Here are special correspondent Tom Netherland's picks for essential bluegrass CDs. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, "The Music of Bill Monroe: 1936-1994"-- Miss Bill Monroe, miss bluegrass. This ...
TAHLEQUAH, OK - The Cherokee Nation is seeking musicians for a bluegrass gospel singing that will be held in conjunction with the 55th Annual Cherokee National Holiday. Each year a gospel singing is ...