Bluegrass legend Del McCoury celebrates his 83rd birthday today. Born on February 1, 1939, McCoury is a living link to fellow bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe. Del performed in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass ...

This past weekend, The Del McCoury Band hosted the 14th iteration of DelFest. From May 26 to 29, the event took place in Cumberland, Md., and featured a plethora of talented acts taking the stage to ...

Annual bluegrass festival DelFest wrapped up its 11th year on Sunday, bringing together dozens of artists and fans of the genre at Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Maryland. The four-day ...

Although Del McCoury’s 80th birthday took place in February, an all-star collection of musicians gathered on Saturday night at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY to celebrate the bluegrass legend ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Del McCoury started playing music 50 years ago in the Baltimore bar scene, so the ...

As the name of the new album, "Del and the Boys," suggests, Del McCoury is just part of the chemistry that makes the Del McCoury Band so special. True, he has one of the greatest voices in modern ...

The String Cheese Incident closed out their 2019 run at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on Sunday. SCI was joined by the Del McCoury Band and dancers from Denver’s Celtic Steps ...

"I Need More Time," came the call from the audience. “So do I,” Del McCoury said with a smile before granting the song request, one of many times the 79-year-old godfather of bluegrass did as he was ...

The summer music festival season gets into full swing around Memorial Day, with events like Sasquatch, Bottlerock Napa Valley and Bonnaroo attracting hundreds of thousands of concertgoers. Some of the ...

Blues and bluegrass will collide in the Windy City later this month for two weekends of star-studded shows. The fourth annual Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival is set for Saturday, Jan. 21 and ...

McCoury's been prominent in bluegrass since the 1960s, when he performed in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. His new album, with sons Rob and Ronnie, in an energetic work that also takes a dark turn.

Del McCoury has benefited as much as almost anyone from the resurgence of interest in traditional bluegrass and country music since O Brother, Where Art Thou? hit America like a ton of hicks (er, ...