When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

No other place in the world has a romance with American bluegrass like the Czech Republic Banjo Romantika introduces the musicians who play this unique bluegrass hybrid Czechs first heard bluegrass ...

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 ...

Bluegrass music legend and Lexington native J.D. Crowe has died. Crowe died early on Dec. 24 at the age of 84, according to Kentucky Country Music Facebook page. His son confirmed Crowe’s death, ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

A lot has changed for “Banjo Dan” Lindner since we last profiled him in March 2010. His bluegrass band Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys has been retired. He currently performs with brother Willie ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.

This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...

“Bluegrass is very community-based,” says mandolinist Patrick Kerrigan Fitzsimons, one of the founders of the academy. “You don’t need fancy equipment. You just carry your instrument, sit in a circle ...

Boulder-raised Dylan McCarthy and the other members of Jake Leg are no strangers to the Front Range bluegrass community. McCarthy, the group’s principal songwriter, and his talented bandmates have ...

KENTUCKY, USA — The music produces images. Listen to a bluegrass record and the common themes appear: family, relationships, God and the beautiful state from which this music was born. Kentucky is ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky has lost a Bluegrass music legend. Renowned banjo player J.D. Crowe died early Thursday, according to a social media post by his son. He was 84. The Lexington, ...