SILVERTHORNE ” The Silverthorne Pavilion recently announced a new concert lineup that will take concert-goers on a tour of the musical evolution of blues to bluegrass to country. The series begins ...

Mike Post has written the music for more classic TV series than anyone else: “The Rockford Files,” “Hill Street Blues,” “The Greatest American Hero,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “The A-Team,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD ...

Live music aficionados have two bluesy festivals to enjoy this weekend. In Camden, the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival encompasses a variety of blues genres – including blues rock, acoustic blues, ...

Live music has been gone for what seems like forever, and it may stay gone until who knows when. But the pandemic hasn’t stopped the flow of the recorded variety, and there’s been plenty of new music ...

I used to spend lots of my time at bluegrass festivals in the 1970s. These events were usually held on meadows in the forests of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Western Maryland. A few were ...

Mar. 3—After a two-year pandemic-induced absence, the Winter Blues Bluegrass Festival to benefit Hospice of Crawford County returns this weekend at the Hotel Conneaut at Conneaut Lake Park. Admission ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sitar player Anouska Shankar, whose album "Traveller" takes a journey through the music of India and Spanish flamenco to explore their shared Gypsy roots, was named Best Artist in ...

Today, bluegrass has a reputation as one of the most conservative genres of American roots music. A lily-white scene with few people of color, the surface of bluegrass today sometimes shows little ...

When Jon Randall made his way to Nashville from Dallas as a teenager, he didn't waste any time fulfilling his dreams. And although he started his career as a guitarist in Emmylou Harris' backing band, ...