DelFest, the annual event hosted by Del McCoury, is often described as a bluegrass festival, even though only a minority of the acts are traditional bluegrass bands. Many a casual observer assumes ...

The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...

In the early days of bluegrass music, two companies were largely responsible for creating that sound – Martin, for its guitars, and Gibson, for its mandolins and banjos. Even today, bluegrass ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- With his flowing white beard, cowboy boots, and down-home humor, Eldon Bryson, 82, plies his trade with easy grace at the Fiddle Shop. “I’m used to stuff being piled up,” he says on ...

Hand the banjo man a stringed instrument, and he'll pick you a tune fine enough to make Bill Monroe, the so-called father of bluegrass, perk up his ears. Hand him a cigar box, a car tag and a guitar ...

The August Valley City Bluegrass Jam Sessions are on Saturday, August 8 at the Vault Coffee Shop and Arts Center. The 11:00 ...