Live music has been gone for what seems like forever, and it may stay gone until who knows when. But the pandemic hasn’t stopped the flow of the recorded variety, and there’s been plenty of new music ...
SILVERTHORNE ” The Silverthorne Pavilion recently announced a new concert lineup that will take concert-goers on a tour of the musical evolution of blues to bluegrass to country. The series begins ...
Northern Nevada has been a magnet for country music acts for decades, and the lineup this fall and winter continues in that ...
I used to spend lots of my time at bluegrass festivals in the 1970s. These events were usually held on meadows in the forests of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Western Maryland. A few were ...
Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...
Today, bluegrass has a reputation as one of the most conservative genres of American roots music. A lily-white scene with few people of color, the surface of bluegrass today sometimes shows little ...
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Students in UL Lafayette’s traditional music program will perform a concert of acoustic bluegrass music and electrified blues and R&B in Burke-Hawthorne Theatre on the ...
The spark of bringing together unusual combinations, like a classically trained bluegrass fiddler, a Cameroonian bassist, and a high energy guitarist, could have resulted in a musical culture clash, ...
Cowpens is hoping to lure visitors by hosting a weekend filled with tasty barbecue and a mixture of blues and bluegrass music. The town's first barbecue, blues and bluegrass music festival is ...
Beautiful spring weather welcomed festival goers to Fulton’s Bluegrass, Blues & BBQ event, this weekend. Thirteen teams participated in the fourth annual amateur barbecue contest, the music of live ...