The sounds of fiddles, banjos and bluegrass music will soon fill the air in Abingdon.The 5th annual Bluegrass and Gospel ...
GRANITE QUARRY — Bluegrass bands and musicians trekked to east Rowan on Saturday night for the 51st annual Granite Quarry Civilian Fiddlers Convention. A spinoff of the well-known Union Grove ...
Telluride Bluegrass is one of just a few places that soprano singer Renée Fleming and banjo player Béla Fleck will perform ...
For the past few years, just ahead of Kentucky Derby time, visitors arriving into Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport would be greeted by live bluegrass, a defining sound of the region ...
Mayor Robert Weilmuenster dedicates a plaque to the late businessman and bluegrass musician. “This was George’s backyard,” Weilmuenster said, “he loved playing here.” Joshua Carter Belleville ...
Who is Indiana's greatest living musician? A pop fan might say Janet Jackson. A rock fan, maybe John Mellencamp or Axl Rose? Or, perhaps Bloomington's lauded classical violinist, Joshua Bell, is the ...
Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...
Michael Cleveland is a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass fiddler and mandolin player from Charlestown, Indiana. Cleveland was ...
Vassar Clements, a legendary fiddler who launched his career with Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in 1949 and later toured or recorded with a raft of musical stars, including the Grateful Dead, the Allman ...
There’s never been a better time to be young and rootsy. Today’s new crop of bluegrass and string-band musicians is younger and more accomplished than any batch of musicians since the teenage days of ...