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, ...
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 — ...
As the sun begins to dip down over Raleigh on Friday, the International Bluegrass Music Association will be well into its fourth convocation in the state’s capital. The streets of downtown will be ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Stephanie Williams Dean For the Enterprise There’s a familiar quote: “Youth is ...
Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...
Most music festivals on Long Island choose to focus on rock, jam bands, blues or country. But there’s only one that spotlights bluegrass, the music genre that mixes acoustic instruments with ...
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 ...
Throughout his career, bluegrass banjo master J.D. Crowe selflessly made room in his band the New South for innovators. Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, and Jerry Douglas all played in the group, which, under ...
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 ...
The biggest story of this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association award show wasn’t that Billy Strings won his third consecutive Entertainer of the Year honor. Nor was it that Sierra Hull ...
Today, bluegrass has a reputation as one of the most conservative genres of American roots music. A lily-white scene with few people of color, the surface of bluegrass today sometimes shows little ...
In the heart of this central Florida city, a vibrant celebration of music and community unfolded this weekend at the inaugural Brick City Bluegrass Music Festival. The venue, located at Ocala Citizens ...