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 ...

Jordan Brandenburg is the literal son of a preacher man. The singer and mandolin player for Denver’s Turkeyfoot is also a devout believer in the gospel of pickin’ and grinnin’. “I tell people that if ...

WEST FARGO - Jack Fuller grew up in a musical family and loves music. But, the West Fargoan didn't start playing a musical instrument until 2009. He was 68 years old. Fuller began to take private ...

Bruce Elseth just finished singing in a church cantata, and he's ready for a change of pace. "I need to get back to bluegrass music," the guitarist from Newfolden, Minn., said. Farther around the ...

The Jacob Jolliff Band will play Friday, Oct. 31, at Side A Brewing, 1219 Washington Ave., in La Grande. The music starts at ...

Durations and program notes, principally by Douglas B. Green, on container. Performer(s): Bluegrass, country and gospel songs; vocal duets; Monroe Brothers (Bill and Charlie), accompanying themselves ...

Over the past couple of years, no single album has occupied more of my time than Mandolin Orange’s Such Jubilee, released in May 2015. On the surface, the duo’s sound is familiar: guitar, mandolin, ...

Doyle Lawson, singer, bandleader and mandolin player made a name for himself in the Country Gentlemen and with Jimmy Martin and J. D. Crow. Then in 1979 he went out on his own as Doyle Lawson and ...