Listen to a conversation with the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and bandleader, Ricky Skaggs. Born in Kentucky in ...

Boulder banjo player Jake Schepps looked to unusual sources for his bluegrass quintet's latest disc. After recording arrangements of composer Bela Bartok’s music in 2011, he went in another direction ...

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 ...

You really can't sing a better segue than the members of Pert Near Sandstone deliver on "Who to Choose." On the song, from their upcoming album "Waiting Days," lush and otherworldly harmonies surround ...

When you think of bluegrass, there are probably a couple of images that immediately come to mind. Whether it’s the suit and cowboy hat combo of Bill Monroe or an Appalachian porch clad with rocking ...

In nontraditional fashion, Kathy Kallick has been helping to keep traditional bluegrass music alive and well. Oakland resident Kallick came from Illinois, not Kentucky. And she started out as a folkie ...

The Steeldrivers are, fundamentally, a bluegrass band. In both instrumentation and songwriting style, their songs are recognizable descendants of Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs. The difference, really, ...

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 ...

The modern bluegrass revival might not have happened if not for Hot Rize, the members of whom met each other through the Denver Folklore Center in the mid-’70s. Kindred spirits in their appreciation ...

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 ...