Mar. 21—When Ivy Phillips and her brother were home-schooled, her mother enrolled her in music lessons, and the power of music took hold. Phillips, who now teaches music full-time, made the drive from ...

Fans of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music will be in heaven this weekend in Tuscaloosa. The 2025 Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship will be held Feb. 22 on the Martin Campus of Shelton ...

Pat Kay plays banjo with his band the Kay Brothers Traditional bluegrass music is a melting pot. It has roots in Appalachian, Celtic and jazz music, and musicologists trace the origins of the banjo ...

Most music festivals on Long Island choose to focus on rock, jam bands, blues or country. But there’s only one that spotlights bluegrass, the music genre that mixes acoustic instruments with ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Since 1973, Bill Knowlton has hosted his Bluegrass Ramble Picnic in Upstate New York. The festival has waxed and waned, drawing tens of thousands of people over the course of the decades. This past ...

The International Bluegrass Music Association conference, awards ceremony, Bluegrass Ramble and World of Bluegrass is in Raleigh, NC, Sept. 25-29, 2018. Find our stories here. From the N&O archives — ...

Technically brilliant, classically trained young road veterans with immense charm, Scythian plays an intensely energetic meld of bluegrass, folk, Celtic, klezmer, rock and more. When the band begins ...

From an early age, bluegrass was integral to Kirk Brandenberger's life. His father was fiddler on the family farm outside of Keokuk, and his mother was a strong supporter of her husband's music. It ...

From a young age, Michael Cleveland knew he was meant to play the fiddle. Cleveland has received numerous awards for his fiddle playing and, with his band Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, won the ...

Bean Blossom in northern Brown County is home to one of the most important institutions in bluegrass music — the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Every June, about 20,000 fans of the ...

Byron Berline, a renowned fiddler who played with bluegrass greats like Bill Monroe as well as rock legends like the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, died Saturday, according to family social media posts ...