Enjoy retro footage from Bluegrass By The River: Gospel Special from 2006 and Old Time Music Festival: West TN Bluegrass Gospel from 2006. Retro 11 is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

That’s a main rule of the Old Time Country Bluegrass Gospel Music Association, founded by Wayne and Cathy Agnew, who are preserving these unique musical styles performed before electric and percussion ...

Frank Lee jokes that he doesn’t want to give bluegrass a bad name. But what Lee really wants to do is make clear the distinction between the old-time music he plays, which derives from Delta blues and ...

Ralph Stanley, now 82, has been singing and playing professionally since the '40s, but the music he performs now is not radically different from what he grew up playing and singing with his brother, ...

"Roll up the rugs," more than a call to let the entertainment begin, was literally the way dance space was created for at-home square dancing. Furniture was moved outdoors or into corners to make ...

The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...

Bruce Elseth just finished singing in a church cantata, and he's ready for a change of pace. "I need to get back to bluegrass music," the guitarist from Newfolden, Minn., said. Farther around the ...

KEARNEY – Acoustic music with banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, bass – that’s how Darrin Vincent identifies bluegrass music. “For me, it’s more about the instrumentation than the lyrics,” he ...