Banjo virtuoso and Punch Brothers band member Noam Pikelny is bringing some of the best musicians in bluegrass — Bryan Sutton (guitar), Jesse Cobb (mandolin), Luke Bulla (fiddle) and Barry Bales (bass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the ...

The Osborne Brothers played together publicly for the first time in 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, it would be more than a decade before they finally got a break when they met Doyle Wilburn of ...

GALAX, Va. — Ellie Massey, 13, stands inside a giant, yellow tent with dozens of other contestants and practices singing the gospel tune, "I'll Fly Away." Her grandfather, Jim Coleman, and uncle, ...

GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO) - Barren County native and owner of Hatfield Banjos Arthur Hatfield has died. Barren County Coroner Tim Gibson confirmed he died Thursday. Hatfield was reportedly in hospice care ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Banjoists Alison Brown and Steve Martin’s first collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane, comes out today on Brown’s Compass ...

Come on down to the American Banjo Museum this Saturday as they host their Bricktown Banjo Bash this weekend bringing the sounds of bluegrass, jazz and much more to the streets of downtown Oklahoma ...

FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama has played a role in some of the most iconic recordings in American popular music history. Today it hosts From the Top and the next generation of classical ...

On this day (January 6) in 1924, Earl Scruggs was born in Flint Hill, North Carolina. He was a member of two of the most influential bluegrass groups. Moreover, he was at the forefront of the genre in ...

One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern drawl itself. But this distinctive instrument ...