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, ...

Plenty of Miamians badmouth the city’s putrid local music scene (oops, there we go again). But South Florida Bluegrass Association, which holds monthly concerts, has played music in the backwoods of ...

C.F. Bailey and Shadow Ridge, a four-piece band from East Tennessee, first formed in 2001 and over the course of their 20-plus year career, they’ve become known for procuring solid, spirited, ...

If you give a thousand 5-year-olds a thousand mandolins, one of those kids is bound to become a legend of country music. It happened to Ricky Skaggs. Before most of his peers had matriculated from ...

A master improviser on banjo, he understood the genre’s roots but was also in the forefront of the later “newgrass” movement. By Bill Friskics-Warren Eddie Adcock, a virtuoso banjo and guitar player ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX) - The sound of bluegrass music filled the hall of the Lakeshore Community Center in Bay St. Louis ...

The artist’s path is an increasingly tangled one in the year 2025, but for guitarists, it’s not so complicated. While money and adulation are fine intentions, a true six stringer needs but one thing ...

Marv and Dawn Menzel opened the Homestead Pickin' Parlor in Richfield nearly 47 years ago. But with rising rent costs and retirement long overdue? The picking will stop. "It's kind of a mixed blessing ...

If you're a lover of bluegrass music, some of the genre's richest history can be found in the blink-and-you-miss-it town of Rosine in Ohio County. The Rosine Barn is home to free Friday night ...