The eclectic blend of bluegrass, blues, country, folk, jazz and rock music that forged the career of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, among numerous other 70s-era luminaries, will be celebrated by ...

I used to spend lots of my time at bluegrass festivals in the 1970s. These events were usually held on meadows in the forests of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Western Maryland. A few were ...

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This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...

Most music festivals on Long Island choose to focus on rock, jam bands, blues or country. But there’s only one that spotlights bluegrass, the music genre that mixes acoustic instruments with ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.

Bluegrass is one of many influencing genres behind modern country music, and quite a few country legends got their musical start in the classic American roots genre. These four legends, in particular, ...

Kentucky—known for being the home of horse racing, bourbon, and bluegrass. However, it is also home to some of the biggest names to have ever made it in country music. If one is familiar with the ...

Grammy-winning Nashville legends Alison Krauss and Union Station are hitting the road for the first time in a decade in 2025. That 73-date North American tour hits Nashville's Ascend Amphitheater on ...

The pipe organ at St. Michael's Episcopal Church will be taking a breather for most of Sunday's worship service, yielding, temporarily, to the sounds of Appalachia. The Little Rock parish is ...