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 — ...

Peter Rowan reflects on the rise and fall of Old & In the Way ahead of his performance with Sam Grisman Project at Suwannee Spring Reunion.

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.)-- The sweet sound of bluegrass music is back in the Bluegrass this weekend. After going 15 years without the longtime music tradition, the Bluegrass Festival returned to it's old ...

Judging by the number of string music CDs stacking up, I have to figure that the “O Brother” phenomenon, now 4 years old, is no passing fling. Following are reviews of recent CDs with the focus on ...

Early this year, a 22-year-old bluegrass guitar player named Jake Eddy contacted clarinet player Andy Statman and asked him if he'd like to play bluegrass music together. Jon Kalish has this story ...

Old-timey bluegrass and gospel songs take center stage when local band Days Of Old resins up the bow. And it’s not just the toe-tapping tunes that delight; the ages of the band members offer hope for ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The sounds of bluegrass will take over San Francisco Sunday as Old Crow Medicine Show" and the Bay Area's own Molly Tuttle grace the stage. The artists have collaborated in the past, ...

Ralph Stanley, now 82, has been singing and playing professionally since the '40s, but the music he performs now is not radically different from what he grew up playing and singing with his brother, ...

Frank Lee jokes that he doesn’t want to give bluegrass a bad name. But what Lee really wants to do is make clear the distinction between the old-time music he plays, which derives from Delta blues and ...

Get lost, punk-rock and emo! Welcome, bluegrass! Like many teenagers, Corrina Rose Logston grew up embracing punk and emo music. But fate — and her parents — took her in a very different direction.