bluegrass

Mark O’Connor will turn 60 this August and not far behind, the 50th anniversary of his arrival on the roots music scene. A musical prodigy if ever there…

Tributes and bluegrass music flowed freely over three hours on Sunday afternoon at Nashville’s Station Inn as friends and family remembered J.T. Gray as a…

Starting about 2000, a new generation of American bluegrass and traditional string musicians came of age and launched careers. They were raised at fiddle…

The special exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrating the Station Inn sat mute behind glass on Monday morning as it has since it…

For all the songs about mother, trains and cabins in the mountains, bluegrass has a tradition of instrumental music that goes back to its very origins.…

Growing up in tiny Madisonville, TN, halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Justin Moses lived in a home that was something of a bluegrass instrument…

Grammy season is upon us, albeit delayed about six weeks as the Recording Academy gets its arms around producing an awards event that honors the music…

Music historians don’t even try to assign a specific inception date for the blues, jazz or rock and roll. But country music loves its birthdays, and there…

Stars illuminate everything around them, but they also exert tremendous gravitational force, sucking in anything not fast enough to orbit on its own. This…

Next week, the International Bluegrass Music Association will hold its 31st Awards show. And while the ceremony will be online instead of live in Raleigh,…