Sometimes you have to enjoy the string music. These are three modern artists who are carrying the torch of classic bluegrass.

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 ...

The artist’s path is an increasingly tangled one in the year 2025, but for guitarists, it’s not so complicated. While money and adulation are fine intentions, a true six stringer needs but one thing ...

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 ...

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, ...

When guitarist Tony Rice died on Christmas Day in his North Carolina home, bluegrass music bade farewell to a second-generation star who expressed his music in modern terms and embraced bluegrass’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, guitarist Roland White ...

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, ...

When Claire Lynch’s family moved from New York to Alabama when she was 12, she recalls hearing little bluegrass. But after graduating from high school, she saw it live for the first time and found ...

We’ve talked a lot about bluegrass in the Lowcountry in this week’s Charleston Scene. But how well do you know the history of the music genre? To test your smarts on the subject, we’ve constructed a ...

The festival’s newcomer contests have impressive alumni In 2007, Gregory Alan Isakov was looking for a way to fund a trip to ...

BLUEGRASS MUSIC WILL FILL THE DEUTSCH HOUSE. THE BAYOU BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL IS HAPPENING SATURDAY, MARCH 22ND, AND ORGANIZERS HOPE YOU WILL STOP BY HERE TO TELL US MORE. IS MICHAEL KNOCHEN, PRESIDENT OF ...