Chris Hirsch had never really enjoyed school. He had started college, and he was making commendable grades. He just didn't like it. After five semesters at St. Edward's University in Austin and then ...

Standing in the tight quarters of his workshop in Topsham, Jimmy Cox takes out one banjo after another, holding each as if it were an extension of his own body. In a way, they are. Cox, who celebrates ...

Steve Martin will perform with The Steep Canyon Rangers in 'An Evening of Bluegrass & Banjo' at the State Theatre August 1st at 6 PM. Steve Martin will perform bluegrass and banjo tunes from his ...

Steve Martin's Tuesday night concert at Carnegie Hall was billed as "An Evening of Banjo and Bluegrass." But he couldn't resist adding some comedy to the mix, sprinkling some novelty songs into his ...

NASHVILLE -- Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

Banjo virtuoso and Punch Brothers band member Noam Pikelny is bringing some of the best musicians in bluegrass — Bryan Sutton (guitar), Jesse Cobb (mandolin), Luke Bulla (fiddle) and Barry Bales (bass ...

When the news broke earlier this week informing us of Sonny Osborne’s passing, my mind raced back to when I first heard him and sibling Bobby – bluegrass music’s indomitable Osborne Brothers – on a ...

Multiple stringed instrument players and musical performers from across the country came together to downtown Owensboro this ...

He is a bluegrass banjo playin’, salsa dancin’ kind of preacher, but most of his parishioners know him as the Rev. Dr. Steven Simpson, pastor at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, Amityville. At 6 ...

What constitutes bluegrass music? Does it need to be all acoustic? Can it ever be electric? Does it always include a banjo, a mandolin, a dobro and fiddles? If it ventures into jam band territory, is ...