For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

Bluegrass music has roots in American and European folk songs. Like folk music, the genre has certain pieces considered bluegrass standards, which have been adapted more times than anyone could ...

Alice Gerrard is still going strong heading toward her 90th birthday. The pioneering songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist has been passing along and preserving old-time Appalachian and ...

OZARK, Ala. -- Lewis Record knows his life is entering the home stretch, but he doesn't show it. Surrounded by some of his closest friends of all ages, the Ozark man is smiling, savoring the sound he ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum and ROMP Bluegrass Festival will be joining the celebration of America’s 250th ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.