The 90th edition of the Old Fiddlers’ Convention begins Monday in Galax. And in this week’s visit to the WDBJ7 Archive, we ...

The International Bluegrass Music Association conference, awards ceremony, Bluegrass Ramble and World of Bluegrass is in Raleigh, NC, Sept. 25-29, 2018. Find our stories here. From the N&O archives — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 15—TAZEWELL, Va. — Clear summer weather and historic cabins were the backdrop Friday for vintage music as the Tazewell County ...

The 14th annual Down Home Up Here Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival will return to Club Passim on April 18–19, bringing together 14 standout acts from across the region and beyond for a weekend ...

For the large bluegrass, old-time, and roots music community found here in Boone and in the surrounding Western North ...

We Banjo 3, which originated in Galway, Ireland, plays a fusion of traditional Irish, old-time and bluegrass music that has been dubbed “Celtgrass.” Members of the group have captured “All Ireland” ...

A performance by two of the founding members of the New Lost City Ramblers — the highly influential string band that jump-started the folk music revival (some called it the “folk scare”) in the 1950s ...

While famed Bluegrass godfather Bill Monroe proposed an almost cult-like, puritan insularity for the music’s practitioners, banjo-guitar maestro Herb Pedersen has memorably rambled through just about ...

The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. is where bluegrass debuted in 1945, and the Station Inn is Nashville's famous club for bluegrass music. But they're only two of Music City's hotspots for ...

Frank Lee jokes that he doesn’t want to give bluegrass a bad name. But what Lee really wants to do is make clear the distinction between the old-time music he plays, which derives from Delta blues and ...

Thirty-three years together and the Lee Valley String Band are better than ever writes David Monagan. IF YOU want a unique musical experience, full of joyous, foot-stomping American songs like the ...