The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...

Hand the banjo man a stringed instrument, and he'll pick you a tune fine enough to make Bill Monroe, the so-called father of bluegrass, perk up his ears. Hand him a cigar box, a car tag and a guitar ...

DelFest, the annual event hosted by Del McCoury, is often described as a bluegrass festival, even though only a minority of the acts are traditional bluegrass bands. Many a casual observer assumes ...

The final day of the 12th annual Bootheel Bluegrass Festival welcomed That Dalton Gang, The Bakers, Riverbend, Bull Harman & Bull’s Eye, Herbie Johnston and acoustic stringed instruments of all kinds ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- With his flowing white beard, cowboy boots, and down-home humor, Eldon Bryson, 82, plies his trade with easy grace at the Fiddle Shop. “I’m used to stuff being piled up,” he says on ...

Banjo player Clinton Knorpp swears the rain began pelting twice as hard just as the Still House String Band jumped on stage. It was the cold mountain kind of rain that’s not fan friendly, and the ...

The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America, based in Nashville, presented its International Band ...

As the first World of Bluegrass crept to a close last year in downtown Raleigh, Chatham County Line stepped on a Fayetteville Street stage to deliver a history-heavy ode to the festival’s arrival: ...