Thom Henderson, SAIL High School music teacher, loves a good banjo joke, and he gives you extra credit if you laugh. “Banjos are showing up in places we don’t expect,” Henderson says while unzipping ...

Boulder born and raised, 2019 RockyGrass champion mandolinist Dylan McCarthy made his way through a lot of styles before settling on becoming a master bluegrass picker. He started playing classical ...

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys are a bluegrass band of brothers from New Jersey. The group, comprised of 17-year-old Tommy, 14-year-old Robbie, and 12-year-old Jonny Mizzone, first got into bluegrass thanks to ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

How does a vagabond go home? Because Bela Fleck plays the five-string banjo, bluegrass purists will swear that his only true home can be with them in their little cabin homes on the hill. And if they ...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder earned instrumental group of the year for the eighth straight time at the International Bluegrass Music Awards Thursday. Tim O’Brien won song of the year and Ricky ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Sandy River Ramblers will perform their Maine-flavored bluegrass show at 7 p ...

Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...

Bluegrass is an indigenous American music that has its roots in the Irish Celtic tradition of the 18th Century. After colliding with country & western and blues music, bluegrass emerged as America’s ...