SANTA CRUZ — For a few hours in August 2025, Abbott Square might as well have been in the Deep South in the ’30s. It was all due to a mix of bands playing a style that blended bluegrass, blues and ...

He helped build one of music's most influential bands, and his work continues to shape generations of artists decades after ...

The former bass guitarist for the Zac Brown Band was given a nightmare diagnosis — doctors told him he had ALS in 2021 — and ...

Amid celebrations marking the nation’s 250th anniversary, bluegrass band Chosen Road released what they believe is one of the most unique recordings in the band’s 18-year history. The 13-song album ...

Dan Tyminski's iconic performance of “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” for the Cohen Brothers 2000 film “O Brother, Where Art ...

Billy Strings returned for his first show following a broken leg with a traditional bluegrass set that showed his and his ...

Hours before the skies were blowing up with fireworks celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday, bluegrass veteran Dan Tyminski ...

If bluegrass remained frozen within the confines set by traditionalists, it wouldn’t have much more to say. The songs might ...

Jeff Little knew his story about the hardscrabble people of Southwest Virginia would land with the crowd in Galax, a hill-bound hub that has long called itself the World's Capital of Old-Time Mountain ...

From OcracokeObserver.com There was, to riff off Stephen Sondheim, something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone. That sums up how the Ocracoke Folk Festival 2026 rolled on the ...

It starts with the dulcet tone of a mandolin, a handsome mahogany instrument rarely seen outside Appalachia’s misty hills and ...