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, ...

ROSINE, Ky. (WBKO) -Deep in the rolling hills of Western Kentucky lies the 95-person town of Rosine. The town might be small, but it was there that a young Bill Monroe first began utilizing the ...

In the span of less than a week, the bluegrass community was rocked to its core: Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne, two pioneering voices and musicians of the “high, lonesome sound,” died within mere ...

Bluegrass came into being, at least in our modern understanding of the genre, alongside recorded music. That means we have recordings from the earliest bluegrass stars up until now. Rest assured, ...

Grammy-award winner and six-time Grammy nominee, Peter Rowan is a bluegrass singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades. From his early years playing under the tutelage of bluegrass ...

Though it's known for being when "flower power" was in full bloom, the 1960s were an incredibly fertile period for bluegrass, producing some of its most innovative and trailblazing sounds. That might ...

A professional liquor taster, dump truck driver and fur hat maker walk into a bar. No, that's not a joke. Add a snow plow driver and lawn mower to the mix — plus the quintet's world-class ability to ...

A full evening of bluegrass music, representing the genre s beginnings through its mature modern form, is coming to the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction on Sunday, when the Sky Blue Boys and ...

Fiddler Lauren Orshaw has faced her share of challenges in the male-dominated world of American bluegrass, but being a member of the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys hasn’t been one of them. Despite the old-timey ...

One of the all-time greats of bluegrass, Del McCoury, quietly passed through Marin County last week, playing a sold-out outdoor barbecue at Rancho Nicasio, his first performance here in 15 years. At ...