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 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 ...

The Valley City July bluegrass jam sessions are scheduled for Saturday, July 11 at the Vault Coffee Shop. The 11:00 am – Noon ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Michigan bluegrass revivalist Billy Strings has set an Aug. 28 release date for his new album “So Much for Goodbyes,” his ...