Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...

Somewhere in New York, perhaps at this very moment, someone is hosting a “picking party,” a bluegrass gathering in a private home where musicians sit and play tunes. And Margot Leverett, a 45-year-old ...

"That's bluegrass music right there, y'all!" yelped Jamie Johnson of The Grascals, as fellow band member Kristin Scott Benson mesmerized the July 8 audience at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium with her ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

The Isis Lounge takes on the aura of a U.K. folk club for Debra Cowan’s upcoming show. Nearly 20 years ago, Debra left her job as a middle school math teacher in California and went to live in ...

Not every band can boast two members who played with Bill Monroe, but both Bobby Hicks and Mark Kuykendall were Bluegrass Boys. Hicks is a 10-time Grammy winner and a North Carolina Heritage Award ...

If there is one thing that people enjoy more than linking turns on the slopes, it’s listening to live music throughout the summer season. Summit County locals and visitors alike will have an ...

Bluegrass music’s big story of 2001 was the soundtrack to the Coen brothers’ movie — “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” — which brought many performers, and stylistic antecedents, of bluegrass to ...