Aug. 22—Dark clouds had already dispersed a small rain shower over the Winding Creek Bluegrass Festival Saturday morning when the twang of banjos being tuned rang out across several campsites. At the ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

J.D. Crowe, an award-winning bluegrass banjoist, who helped establish the careers of country stars Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley in the 1970s and whose recordings with the Bluegrass Album Band ...

Bluegrass music legend and Lexington native J.D. Crowe has died. Crowe died early on Dec. 24 at the age of 84, according to Kentucky Country Music Facebook page. His son confirmed Crowe’s death, ...

For 18 years, the Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival has brought the sounds of one of the quintessentially American musical genres to the shores of Medical Lake. It now draws between 800 and 1,000 people, ...

One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern drawl itself. But this distinctive instrument ...

Japan's love affair with the genre began with brothers Yasushi and Hisashi Ozaki, who formed the country's first bluegrass duo in 1957. Today,... Meet The Musicians Behind Japan's Vibrant Bluegrass ...

Bill Monroe’s Music Park & Campground in Brown County hosts the 60th edition of Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festival, considered the ultimate venue for live performances of the country music style, June ...

The Bay Area’s vibrant acoustic music scene in the 1960s and 1970s helped make Berkeley’s Laurie Lewis, who grew up learning classical piano and violin, a bona fide bluegrass star and an inspiration ...