J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

A renowned bluegrass musician who calls Springfield home has received international recognition. Springfield resident Alan Munde, a bluegrass musician who specializes in the banjo, was recently ...

As a longtime admirer and friend of Yonder Mountain String Band and a former member of Leftover Salmon, banjo player Noam Pikelny holds a bona fide tie to the genre-expanding iterations of bluegrass ...

To the casual listener, old-time and bluegrass might be hard to tell apart. Both genres of music predominantly feature ...

Love a good house show, but looking for something different? Enter Belltower, a student indie bluegrass band. Formed on the ...

CENTERVILLE, Ohio (WDTN) — One 12-year-old from Centerville is taking the national stage, playing the banjo with the skill of someone two or three times his age. “It’s what I love to do,” Owen ...

If the festival offers a chance to get together with old friends for annual attendees, that is just as true for the musicians ...

For 25 years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has brought the Bay Area together in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for legendary artists, new voices and to spread the Hellman family spirit.

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.

People often say that music is the great unifier. For instance, you can go to a concert and be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of strangers but everyone has at least one thing in common—love for ...