Springfield, MO music store The Acoustic Shoppe has shared footage of this year's National Flat-picking Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas – held between 13 and 17 ...

Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, co-founder of the U.S.-based bluegrass band “The Hillbilly Thomists,” is pictured in Rome March 13, 2021. (Credit: Robert Duncan/CNS.) Listen ROME — Rome’s ...

Mixing traditional bluegrass instrumentation with garage rock or one of its many offshoots like punk or grunge is nothing new. Perhaps no one did it better than the Meat Purveyors 20-some years ago.

Eighty years after the genre’s Big Bang, a case can be made that bluegrass has never been more dynamic, more ubiquitous or ...

It’s the day before New Year’s Eve in Nashville, and Molly Tuttle is in a dressing room at the Ryman Auditorium, getting ready to open Old Crow Medicine Show’s annual year-end concerts later that ...

It's time to stop thinking of bluegrass mandolinist Sierra Hull as a former child prodigy. She is now, quite simply, one of the most imaginative and openly curious musicians in American roots music.

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out played to the late afternoon crowd at Festival of the Bluegrass on July 9, 2017. The traditional festival won’t be coming back after 46 years but a new bluegrass music ...

Jodi Andrew sat at a sunny picnic table at her music festival Saturday afternoon, fretting and trying to figure out what’s wrong. The pickers, fiddlers, strummers and singers at the Sunlight Mountain ...

Phyliss Donnelly started playing the mandolin five years ago, the year of her first Podunk. She’s returned to the Connecticut bluegrass festival every year since, improving her mandolin-picking along ...