Bluegrass music has recently made a massive resurgence, thanks to folks like Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell. However, as most of you know, the genre isn’t a new thing. Rather, it is one of the ...

Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...

A melange of fiddles, banjos and voices will soon drift across the surface of Medical Lake from the annual Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival. For 22 years, this celebration of music has brought people ...

“Rebuild the system, reclaim the power,” raps Philadelphia artist R-SON the Voice of Reason on Gangstagrass’ cover of Woody Guthrie‘s “This Land Is Your Land.” “If this land is yours, it’s certainly ...

Stash Wyslouch’s version of Jimmy Martin’s 1961 song “My Walking Shoes” starts out as a pretty standard bluegrass tune: nimble flatpicked guitar, an insistent backbeat, close vocal harmonies. Then, ...

This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...

Given the upheavals that have swept across the country in recent months perhaps the exponential expansion of Bluegrass Pride shouldn’t come as a surprise. Launched with a single, award-winning float ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame opened in Owensboro, Ky., in 1991. Since its founding, musicians from 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have been inducted. But the inductees have largely been from ...

The 36th annual International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show felt a little different this go-round. Sure, the annual gathering of the genre overtook Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the first time ...

Update Friday, Sept. 27: The International Bluegrass Music Association announced yesterday that the Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival in Wilmington, Ohio won the 2024 event of the year award over ...