Joined by friends and family for this very special celebratory concert -- a must-see event for country music fans -- the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performs selections from their highly acclaimed "Will ...

On the front page of the Overton County News on January 4, 1968, a picture of Flatt and Scruggs appeared promoting a show they would be performing at Livingston Elementary School on January 5. That ...

The early years of bluegrass music can be traced back to the 1940s in Appalachia. With roots in music styles like English folk and Appalachian music, the genre served as the inspiration and basis for ...

MILL SPRING—The Earl Scruggs Music Festival has been named the 2025 Event of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association, capping off a record-breaking Labor Day weekend for the festival ...

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We are in the best time of the year for dinner and music at Lake Toxaway Community Center. This Friday we will have a fun band, Finkelstein Three, from Cleveland County (home of Earl Scruggs) and this ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

MILL SPRING, N.C. (WLOS) — The fourth annual Earl Scruggs Music Festival has officially kicked off in the mountains. The iconic bluegrass music event is taking place this weekend at the Tryon ...

ASHEVILLE — The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area is excited to announce its participation in the 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Festival featuring a special fundraising concert, “Healing the Hollers,” and a ...

The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area will bring a special fundraising concert, "Healing the Hollers," to the 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Festival at Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring.

Rob McCoury can sum up banjo legend Earl Scruggs in one simple, yet seismic sentence. “Banjo at its finest,” said McCoury, a lauded Grammy-winning banjoist for the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin’ ...