His fingers grasp the fiddle’s neck tentatively, as if reacquainting themselves with an old friend. The three dozen people in the three-bay garage go quiet; this, they know, is what they came to hear.

The best country, Americana, folk and bluegrass songs of 2018 are album cuts and singles. They're under the radar and award-nominated chart hits. They're feel-good anthems and heartbreak ballads. They ...

Next month, local bluegrass band Flint Hollow will be playing at the Lucketts Community Center. And while playing the local community center might not seem like a landmark event, for a bluegrass band ...

It was the banjo that did it for Ilya Toshinsky. After hearing the five strings of unfettered glee, the Russian music student knew he wanted to play it. And so, with other friends at the school, he ...

In the mid-’90s, Laura Love was handed a stack of vinyl LPs by Jo Miller, the singer of the bluegrass-derived band Ranch Romance. “She said, ‘You’ve got such a great voice for bluegrass,'” recalled ...

Bluegrass music can transport listeners with the instrumental dexterity of the players, as those acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles, and other back-porch instruments churn away in mesmerizing fashion.

The Varsity Theatre is one of Robert Earl Keen’s favorite stops. Playing some 120 shows annually for the past 20 years, the Texas singer-songwriter has played the Highland Road music venue more than a ...

A North minister, who loves bluegrass music and has played with many well-known bluegrass bands over the years, made the decision to let his love of music play second fiddle to his calling to preach ...

Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff, the core of the bluegrass group Nefesh Mountain, had just returned from a family trip to Poland and the Ukraine in 2018 when news broke about a mass shooting at the ...

Tickets to see Del McCoury band play Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater on Saturday, Nov. 15 are still available and ...