Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kitchen fire prevented the Western Hills Winter Bluegrass Festival from happening last year at Sequoyah Lodge, but musicians and ...

NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with fiddler Darol Anger, who teams up with several talented young modern bluegrass players for a new CD that evokes music from around the globe. "Republic of Strings" by ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

There’s never been a better time to be young and rootsy. Today’s new crop of bluegrass and string-band musicians is younger and more accomplished than any batch of musicians since the teenage days of ...

The annual Fiddler's Convention in Abingdon began as a small community gathering and has grown into a regional tradition.News ...

Aaron Castilla is a 21-year-old fiddling and mandolin bluegrass sensation who lives in Spokane Valley. Later this month he leaves for California where he’s landed a gig with a respected touring ...

Apr. 13—Break out your banjos, rosin up your fiddle bows and head out to the Lodi Grape Festival grounds on Tuesday if you want to tap your toes to some down-home bluegrass music. The California ...

Cuttin' grass for America's 250th birthday. Award-winning bluegrass group The Kody Norris Show is back with a new single celebrating the “Spirit of America” – and we’ve got your first listen. The song ...

Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...

Bluegrass, which sounds as old as the hills, actually was invented in the 1940s by Monroe, Scruggs, Flatt, Chubby and a handful of other Southern boys. They played acoustic string instruments (fiddle, ...

GRANITE QUARRY — Steve Kilby doesn’t remember if he attended the first ever Granite Quarry Civitan Fiddlers Convention in 1967, but he hasn’t missed many since. Originally from North Wilkesboro, Steve ...