Bluegrass has always been a music by and for the masses. One of the pioneers of the feel-good fast-pickin’ genre in the 1940s ...

One hundred two years ago today, one of the most innovative and influential bluegrass musicians in the genre's history was born.

In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, guitarist Roland White turned the wrong way and ran face-to-face into Monroe himself. Monroe ...

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 ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

Rhonda Vincent's ragin' across the country this spring and summer. The five-time International Bluegrass Music Association female vocalist of the year is on tour following the release of her first ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Bloomington Bluegrass Fest is set to take place on May 3 at Upland Brewing Co in Bloomington, Indiana, showcasing eight bands including the local string band Low Landers.

For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

Robin Chandler, owner of the Cary Street Cafe, saw the revival begin before the movie came out. “Three or four years ago I couldn’t find a bluegrass band to save my soul,” she says. “All of a sudden, ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame opened in Owensboro, Ky., in 1991. Since its founding, musicians from 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have been inducted. But the inductees have largely been from ...

At this point, Willie seems to have outgrown the ability to surprise people. Is he really, at the age of ninety, still touring and playing nearly a hundred shows this year? Will he really release ...

Leeds Center launches Bluegrass University for ages 11-18 in Winchester, KY. Weekly classes teach band skills, harmony and stage confidence. Program aims to preserve Kentucky bluegrass amid genre's ...