Fiddle players are often at the center of bluegrass music, taking on the role of the lead instrument. Before Bill Monroe became the so-called Father of Bluegrass, he was influenced by other musicians ...

It you’re looking for a bit of musical merriment, Debutants, a creative bluegrass string collective, are throwing a ...

Mar. 21—When Ivy Phillips and her brother were home-schooled, her mother enrolled her in music lessons, and the power of music took hold. Phillips, who now teaches music full-time, made the drive from ...

Fans of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music will be in heaven this weekend in Tuscaloosa. The 2025 Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship will be held Feb. 22 on the Martin Campus of Shelton ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who expanded the vocabulary of his instrument while also establishing it as an integral voice in country-rock on recordings by Bob Dylan, the ...

This tune is thelead single to from her upcoming studio album, Distance And Time, which will be released on July 17. It also marks her third release on Dark Shadow Recording. It is upbeat, catchy, and ...

Tucson really doesn’t get enough bands to stop by and sing passionate bluegrass ballads about boogers. The Asylum Street Spankers, a seven-piece country-blues revival, who will be playing at Club ...

NEOSHO, Mo. — Saturday’s Big Spring Bluegrass and BBQ Festival, in which seven bluegrass bands will play for seven consecutive hours, is the latest in a long tradition of bluegrass festivals held ...

His updated version of an old-timey approach enhanced recordings by everyone from Bill Monroe to the Rolling Stones. By Bill Friskics-Warren Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who ...