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 iconic North Carolina bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs would have turned 100 on Jan. 6. On Saturday, the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will host a special concert to honor his memory with the ...

As a longtime admirer and friend of Yonder Mountain String Band and a former member of Leftover Salmon, banjo player Noam Pikelny holds a bona fide tie to the genre-expanding iterations of bluegrass ...

People often say that music is the great unifier. For instance, you can go to a concert and be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of strangers but everyone has at least one thing in common—love for ...

Over the past few years, Tony Trischka, considered one of the most influential banjo players around, has been delving deep into the music of another banjo master: the late Earl Scruggs. Scruggs, in ...

The Osborne Brothers played together publicly for the first time in 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, it would be more than a decade before they finally got a break when they met Doyle Wilburn of ...

Young banjo player to play at Southeast Missourian's centennial celebration. One busy Saturday at his music store, Bill Shivelbine got a pleasant surprise. Shivelbine heard the sounds of a seasoned ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

It’s a well-documented fact that Tucson music fans crave new sounds and are willing to keep their ears, as well as their minds, wide open when it comes to inventive musical hybrids. So Tim ...