Drawn to Colorado by the promise of a flourishing, yet down-home, music scene the men of Mountain Standard Time came from varying geographic regions and musical stylings to develop a blend of music ...
He gives a bluegrass update to the classic tune that now features a prominent banjo where the guitar used to be. Nelson’s voice glows as he sings over a crisp and clean bluegrass melody, She’s a ...
Most music festivals on Long Island choose to focus on rock, jam bands, blues or country. But there’s only one that spotlights bluegrass, the music genre that mixes acoustic instruments with ...
The band he led with his brother broke new ground with an unusually broad repertoire, unorthodox instrumentation and untraditional vocal harmonies. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bobby Osborne, the singer ...
When guitarist Tony Rice died on Christmas Day in his North Carolina home, bluegrass music bade farewell to a second-generation star who expressed his music in modern terms and embraced bluegrass’s ...
Bluegrass has always been a music by and for the masses. One of the pioneers of the feel-good fast-pickin’ genre in the 1940s, Bill Monroe, is credited with saying “Bluegrass has brought more people ...
HUNTINGTON -- Kevin Williamson has been in the bluegrass music business for more than three decades. His father Jerry caught the bluegrass bug when Kevin was a kid growing up in Kenova and eastern ...
Bluegrass guitar picker Molly Tuttle is at the top of her profession. Named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year, she was drawn to this traditional American art ...
For Conor Smith of Quincy, playing music has always been a passion, so when his wife took a job at UMass-Boston, it was an easy decision for the 35-year-old, classically trained violinist to leave a ...