Landon Hughes is proud of where he’s from. During the 19-year-old college soccer player’s audition for American Idol, he expressed pride in his Appalachian hometown. “As Appalachians, we have a very ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Third time's a charm! Michigan native Billy Strings won a Grammy award Sunday for his latest album, making it his third time taking home a golden gramophone. The bluegrass star ...

Long before Zach Top’s boots first hit a prime-time awards show stage, Will McSeveney and Norm Olsen knew something the rest of the world would eventually realize. Top’s figurative big brothers in the ...

Daxson Lewis (Class of 2016), director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, was nominated for Banjo Performer of the Year at the 2026 Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in ...

After a five-year hiatus triggered by COVID-19 and renovations at what's now called the Renaissance Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival will make its return to the ...

If it’s January, you know it's time to jam at the Great 48. This first big local music event of the year will bring hundreds of performers from all over the state to jam at the Bakersfield Marriott at ...

Formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, circa 1999, the Steep Canyon Rangers base their neo-bluegrass music on 20th-century masters of the genre such as Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and the Stanley ...

This is an opinionated year-in-review cartoon gallery thing. 2025 was another wild, disturbing, crazy mixed-up ball of sordid, tragic, garish, ugly weirdness that threatens the heart and soul of our ...

Trish Imbrogno described her debut EP, “Bluegrass Love Songs, Volume One,” as leaning into the “gentler” side of bluegrass love songs, or in other words, “the heartbreakers where nobody ends up in a ...

LOUISA COUNTY, Va. — Frances West Byers is a card-carrying member of an exclusive club. The woman with deep roots in Louisa County is one of only about 400 people worldwide who have reached a certain ...