The Bluegrass Hall of Fame member played fast without sacrificing the genre's melodic core, and improvised with a sense of humor. By Steve Knopper In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill ...

Bill Monroe, the founding father of bluegrass music, died on September 9, 1996, just four days shy of his 85th birthday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis pairs with Marty Stuart for the new music video "Blue Smoke." - Credit: Laci Mack* Wyatt Ellis is ...

Bill Monroe, the "Father of Bluegrass" who influenced everyone from Ricky Skaggs to Jerry Garcia, was born 115 years ago today in Kentucky.

Mandolin Orange is a folk duo comprising songwriter Andrew Marlin (vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and Emily Frantz (vocals, violin, guitar). Marlin and Frantz have produced five albums of original ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 ...

Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at the age of 89. Watch "Blues Stay Away from Me - Frank ...

"MANDOLIN MAN: THE BLUEGRASS LIFE OF ROLAND WHITE" by Bob Black (University of Illinois Press, 280 pages, $20). In "Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White," author and banjo player Bob Black ...

Monroe Crossing, the busy, well-traveled Minnesota-based bluegrass band, is celebrating its 10th anniversary year and its 10th CD release, "Heart Ache & Stone," with ...

In the span of less than a week, the bluegrass community was rocked to its core: Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne, two pioneering voices and musicians of the “high, lonesome sound,” died within mere ...

A master improviser on banjo, he understood the genre’s roots but was also in the forefront of the later “newgrass” movement. By Bill Friskics-Warren Eddie Adcock, a virtuoso banjo and guitar player ...