Bluegrass is one of many influencing genres behind modern country music, and quite a few country legends got their musical start in the classic American roots genre. These four legends, in particular, ...

Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light, a Boston-based folk trio, is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, at Bedford ...

It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

Mountain music will be reverberating throughout North Vernon’s Park Theatre Civic Centre for two nights this month.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It doesn’t take much to get Vince Gill to play with folks. The singer and guitarist has logged time in bands -- Pure Prairie League, the Notorious Cherry Bombs, the Time Jumpers and ...

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 ...

I’ve always had a deep appreciation for bluegrass. A form of Southern mountain music in overdrive, bluegrass coalesced in the late 1940s when Kentucky mandolinist and singer Bill Monroe, who had ...

Watching guitarist Billy Strings onstage is akin to observing a hummingbird in its natural state. Strings’ fingers zoom up and down the fretboard of his acoustic in an intricate and calculated frenzy.

Reporting from Nashville, Tenn. — Ralph Stanley “carried the ancient sounds,” in the words of his protege Ricky Skaggs. Skaggs and others noted an uncanny quality in the style of the bluegrass ...

In 100 days, the average person could grow out a bad haircut by roughly an inch and a half, finish the entirety of “The Sopranos,” finish reading “War and Peace,”(maybe) get a passport processed, or ...

Today, bluegrass has a reputation as one of the most conservative genres of American roots music. A lily-white scene with few people of color, the surface of bluegrass today sometimes shows little ...

We’ve talked a lot about bluegrass in the Lowcountry in this week’s Charleston Scene. But how well do you know the history of the music genre? To test your smarts on the subject, we’ve constructed a ...