Bluegrass music is one of, if not the oldest genre of music in the United States. Given its longevity it has graced every facet of the music industry in some way, shape, or form; whether it be ...

In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, guitarist Roland White turned the wrong way and ran face-to-face into Monroe himself. Monroe ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

Robin Chandler, owner of the Cary Street Cafe, saw the revival begin before the movie came out. “Three or four years ago I couldn’t find a bluegrass band to save my soul,” she says. “All of a sudden, ...

The Hosmer Mountain Boys were voted Fan Favorite at the 2023 Podunk Bluegrass Festival and have performed on the WoodSongs ...

Rhonda Vincent's ragin' across the country this spring and summer. The five-time International Bluegrass Music Association female vocalist of the year is on tour following the release of her first ...

Amid the halls of the Kenan Music Building, the sounds of mandolins, banjos, fiddles and guitars can be heard as the Carolina Bluegrass Band brings rich, locally-rooted bluegrass music to life. The ...

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out played to the late afternoon crowd at Festival of the Bluegrass on July 9, 2017. The traditional festival won’t be coming back after 46 years but a new bluegrass music ...

For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame opened in Owensboro, Ky., in 1991. Since its founding, musicians from 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have been inducted. But the inductees have largely been from ...

At this point, Willie seems to have outgrown the ability to surprise people. Is he really, at the age of ninety, still touring and playing nearly a hundred shows this year? Will he really release ...

If you drive by the Belleplain United Methodist Church on Hands Mill Road on the first Friday night of the month with your windows open, you may hear the strains of bluegrass music wafting through the ...