Bluegrass music can transport listeners with the instrumental dexterity of the players, as those acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles, and other back-porch instruments churn away in mesmerizing fashion.

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

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, ...

We talk with the genre-busting banjo ace, a native North Carolinian living in Nashville, before the release party at The ’58 ...

Some years ago, I briefly toured the Midwest playing harmonica with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Quite how an English teenager came to be there still mystifies me as much as it surely ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

The International Bluegrass Music Association conference, awards ceremony, Bluegrass Ramble and World of Bluegrass is in Raleigh, NC, Sept. 25-29, 2018. Find our stories here. From the N&O archives — ...

If you went on Google to look up reviews for The Punisher Season 2 today, you may have noticed a Stetson-wearing fella who looks an awful lot like an NPC from Red Dead Redemption 2. Today, Google is ...

Watching guitarist Billy Strings onstage is akin to observing a hummingbird in its natural state. Strings’ fingers zoom up and down the fretboard of his acoustic in an intricate and calculated frenzy.

Drawing on rock and R&B, Mr. Crowe recast the sound of bluegrass while helping launch the careers of some of the genre’s biggest stars. By Bill Friskics-Warren J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and ...