Eighty-eight years ago today, one of the most influential multi-instrumentalists in American roots music was born.

BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) — The Appalachian region is recognized as the birthplace of country music, but even before the Bristol Sessions began recording, it was also the origin of a distinct type of soul ...

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 ...

The Palisade Bluegrass and Roots Festival unveiled its 2026 festival lineup, featuring three days of national touring acts, Colorado standouts and genre-bending performers at Riverbend Park in ...

The artist’s path is an increasingly tangled one in the year 2025, but for guitarists, it’s not so complicated. While money and adulation are fine intentions, a true six stringer needs but one thing ...

The 45th annual Minnesota Bluegrass August Festival will take place Aug. 7-10 at El Rancho Mañana Campground in Richmond. The festival is free to attend, excluding parking and camping fees, and ...

From left: A bass, a guitar and a mandolin restored by luthier Jessi Carter in her workshop. Carter moved her business, Vinegar Works Guitars, to Adams when she and her husband, bluegrass musician ...

CHARLOTTE — Terry Barber is an iconic figure in the country music world, having spent 50-plus years playing all types of music, particularly bluegrass. On Saturday, Barber and seven other ...

Like the itchy-heeled rambler in Bill Monroe’s 1959 recording of the folk song “Gotta Travel On,” the rural-themed, largely three-chord music Monroe created in the 1940s has since moved on to new ...