A summer concert series is kicking off with the sounds of bluegrass. The Hillbilly Biscuits, with special guest The Old Willow, will perform Saturday as part of the Highmark Blue ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Stash Wyslouch’s version of Jimmy Martin’s 1961 song “My Walking Shoes” starts out as a pretty standard bluegrass tune: nimble flatpicked guitar, an insistent backbeat, close vocal harmonies. Then, ...

It is 88-year-old bluegrass pioneer Ralph Stanley’s job to walk onto the stage, find the microphone and sing. His grandson, 22-year-old Nathan Stanley, is in charge of everything else — he’s the road ...

The artist began purveying the ritualized old-time music she first heard from Tommy Jarrell and Dwight Diller, who taught her father to play the banjo. “Music is the biggest part of who I am, just ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ralph Stanley, now 82, has been singing and playing professionally ...

Andy Statman is well known as a clarinet player in the Klezmer and jazz circuit. But decades ago, he was wowing musicians and audiences alike by playing bluegrass mandolin. Early this year, a ...