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The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum is reviving a long-running educational tradition with a new student musical ...
Randy Lanham, education director at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum has written a musical, “The Birth of Bluegrass,” for fifth-graders to perform. He’s starting with Whitesville Elementary ...
In 1945, bluegrass musician Bill Monroe released the waltz “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” a song that Elvis Presley would cover nearly 10 years later. In the recording studio, Elvis made a number of changes ...
Bluegrass music has roots in American and European folk songs. Like folk music, the genre has certain pieces considered bluegrass standards, which have been adapted more times than anyone could ...
To many fans, the late, great Loretta Lynn is still the queen of country music. Few artists in the genre—men or women—were as authentic in their songwriting at Lynn. Telling her life story through her ...
Last night, Billy Strings descended upon the Windy City to perform at the Lollapalooza Aftershow, ahead of his official festival set on the T-Mobile Stage at Chicago’s Grant Park, located in the ...
Bassist Mark Hembree's On the Bus With Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass gives us the legendary Father of Bluegrass as we've come to know him: intimidating, sometimes ...
In 1964, a 22-year-old college dropout named Peter Rowan joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys for what would turn out to be a three-year stint playing guitar and singing lead vocals. Thirty-five years ...