Bluegrass (genre)

At this point in my life, I have lost my grandparents and parents and all of their siblings. So as far as who the "elder statesmen" are on my side of the family, my sister and I are now the ones. Fortunately, before they died, I was able to tape record...

On May 22, there will be a music festival from noon to 7 p.m. at the Heritage Museum of Orange County. Not only will there be bluegrass, folk and Americana music, there will also be a great barbecue and a number of fun and meaningful family activities....

NEWPORT COAST — It definitely wasn't something you'd associate with a beach town like Newport Beach. Sun shining and blue sky overhead, the four Wimberley siblings filled the Sage Hill School courtyard with the sounds of traditional bluegrass...

Bluegrass banjo player Doug Dillard has died at 75. With the Dillards, Doug Dillard helped popularize bluegrass music in the 1960s during appearances on "The Andy Griffith Show" and contributed to the birth of country-rock music....

Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument. "He was so...

There’s something about the National Pike Festival that always makes me feel connected to my roots a little more. My family has lived in the Clear Spring area for generations, and when visiting my late grandmother — neé Faith — I...

DAY NINE- Saturday, June 11 The Wichita Riverfest began with a bang and ended with an even bigger BANG! The last day of the Riverfest had some incredible events to end the nine day long festival. Plus, the weather this evening was perfect! The last...

During the weekdays, Steve Harris of Martinsburg, W.Va., is at the helm of his residential commercial contracting company. But many weeknights and most weekends, the 42-year-old can be found strumming away on his guitar as part of the band Circa Blue....

It was with some sense of deja vu that Steve Martin pulled into Stagecoach for a performance Saturday that had him and the Steep Canyon Rangers slotted to play immediately after bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley, a situation similar to one for which...

Highlights from the first two days of the 2012 Stagecoach Country Music Festival include performances by Miranda Lambert, Steve Martin, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean. The Mavericks reunion and roots-rock singer-songwriter Dave Alvin also provided...

Like country-bluegrass veteran Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart has assumed a weighty mantle: torch bearer for traditional country music in the face of a genre that increasingly becomes more removed from its roots. It's a passion for Stuart. It's also a musical...

The actor-author-musician Steve Martin has been tapped to compose original folk-style music for the Shakespeare in the Park production of “As You Like It,” at the Delacorte Theater June 5 to 30....