Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sound of bluegrass music filled the air Feb. 25 during the Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship at Shelton State ...

Jazz has John Coltrane. Bluegrass has Kenny Baker. Playing alongside the legendary Bill Monroe for 25 years, Baker’s smooth “long-bow” style of fiddling would come to define the genre. Today, we’re ...

“Jewgrass" is the fusion of bluegrass music with Hebrew lyrics and is played by a diverse group of old-time and bluegrass musicians. iStockphoto This Passover, my friend Lester Feder sat at the head ...

In 2020, two-time IBMA Award-winning bluegrass fiddle player Bronwyn released a project, Fiddler's Pastime, that showcased her prowess on the instrument. A year later, she joined Molly Tuttle & Golden ...

MARS HILL - Bobby Hicks is no stranger to hardware, and the Madison County bluegrass music pioneer and fiddle virtuoso now has another award to add to his trophy collection. Hicks was honored with the ...

Bill Monroe, the founding father of bluegrass music, died on September 9, 1996, just four days shy of his 85th birthday.

Who is Indiana's greatest living musician? A pop fan might say Janet Jackson. A rock fan, maybe John Mellencamp or Axl Rose? Or, perhaps Bloomington's lauded classical violinist, Joshua Bell, is the ...

The Appalachian Fiddle & Bluegrass Association will host its 37th annual festival at Mountain View Park in Wind Gap, bringing four days of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music to the region ...

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 ...