Bluegrass music has recently made a massive resurgence, thanks to folks like Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell. However, as most of you know, the genre isn’t a new thing. Rather, it is one of the ...

Members of South Korean bluegrass group Country GongBang performing live, from left, bass player Keeha Song, vocalist and mandolin player Yebin Kim and banjo player Hyunho “Banjo Boy” Jang. The 2018 ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame opened in Owensboro, Ky., in 1991. Since its founding, musicians from 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have been inducted. But the inductees have largely been from ...

For all the bragging rights he has earned by selling out Rupp Arena on two consecutive nights two years in a row, Billy Strings took the stage Friday evening in remarkably unceremonious fashion. But ...

The International Bluegrass Music Association has officially unveiled the nominees for its 36th Annual Bluegrass Awards, at once elevating the genre’s present trailblazers and canonizing the legacy of ...

Tens of thousands of bluegrass fans and musicians are converging on downtown Raleigh this weekend for the annual World of Bluegrass event hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Association, the ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Bloomington Bluegrass Fest is set to take place on May 3 at Upland Brewing Co in Bloomington, Indiana, showcasing eight bands including the local string band Low Landers.

Amid the halls of the Kenan Music Building, the sounds of mandolins, banjos, fiddles and guitars can be heard as the Carolina Bluegrass Band brings rich, locally-rooted bluegrass music to life. The ...

This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...

Mt. Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, recalled listening to two women sing “Foggy River” as a man accompanied them on fiddle ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.28697710.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.28697710.3 The Upland South—that somewhat amorphous geo-cultural region encompassing the ...