Late last month, I was lucky enough to catch a special musical performance in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was a fine morning in high summer, and on the back porch of the Oconaluftee ...

Band to take the stage at Tico Time festival this weekend The Lil Smokies, a band known for its modern bluegrass sound that incorporates musical elements, draws inspiration from everywhere. Playing ...

Apr. 22—FINDLAY — Modern bluegrass band Never Come Down just needs one microphone. When they perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24 at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts, 200 W. Main Cross ...

PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary bluegrass and folk music with The Lonely Heartstring Band and The Stockwell Brothers at Next Stage on Saturday, 7 ...

BAINBRIDGE — The Bainbridge Town Hall Theatre announced On The Trail will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 at 15 N. Main St. According to a media release, the group will perform bluegrass, ...

Bluegrass is a genre founded on tradition. That being so, it is no surprise that bluegrass musicians from the present lift and riff off of bluegrass musicians from the past. This is not malicious nor ...

Food vendors, 16 craft merchants and music teachers offering instrument workshops on bass, fiddle and banjo will be on hand at the NEPA Bluegrass Festival this weekend. Mason Porter of the Philly ...

A featured player on “Hee Haw” and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Bozeman Folklore Society is helping KGLT-FM kick off its annual fund-drive with one of the ...

Bluegrass music has roots in early American settlement with the arrival of the English, Scots and Irish — who brought fiddle and the basic styles of music that are generally considered to be the roots ...

The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. is where bluegrass debuted in 1945, and the Station Inn is Nashville's famous club for bluegrass music. But they're only two of Music City's hotspots for ...

Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...