Old Crow Medicine Show is likely one of the last purely popularized bluegrass bands currently in the world of country music. Nothing about their music or appearance articulates a phony sound or ...
Next month, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will launch its new Junior Appalachian Music program for ...
This weekend, the mountains of southwestern Virginia are filled with the sweet, cacophonous sound of fiddles. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: It is the Old Fiddler's Convention, which draws hundreds of ...
The predominant sound in Owasso these days may be the roar of traffic up and down U.S. 169, but somewhere, deep in the background, one can hear the occasional rhythmic buzzing of bluegrass aficionados ...
Bluegrass music is one of, if not the oldest genre of music in the United States. Given its longevity it has graced every facet of the music industry in some way, shape, or form; whether it be ...
Grounded in tradition through they are, Barrett Smith and his fellow Steep Canyon Rangers nonetheless see bluegrass as a ...
Bluegrass has always been a music by and for the masses. One of the pioneers of the feel-good fast-pickin’ genre in the 1940s ...