The International Bluegrass Music Association conference, awards ceremony, Bluegrass Ramble and World of Bluegrass is in Raleigh, NC, Sept. 25-29, 2018. Find our stories here. From the N&O archives — ...

Judging by the number of string music CDs stacking up, I have to figure that the “O Brother” phenomenon, now 4 years old, is no passing fling. Following are reviews of recent CDs with the focus on ...

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.)-- The sweet sound of bluegrass music is back in the Bluegrass this weekend. After going 15 years without the longtime music tradition, the Bluegrass Festival returned to it's old ...

The four-day festival is bringing in an eclectic mix of old and new musicians with more than 30 bands playing across three ...

Bluegrass fans motor from festival to festival seeking the music in its purest form, and during the second weekend of every August, some of them drink from a singular source tucked into the rolling ...

Early this year, a 22-year-old bluegrass guitar player named Jake Eddy contacted clarinet player Andy Statman and asked him if he'd like to play bluegrass music together. Jon Kalish has this story ...

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, ...