Virginia and North Carolina and down through the Appalachians. So one major influence early on was the Scotch-Irish influx up ...

Parton’s backing band is the First Ladies of Bluegrass, an acoustic supergroup that includes Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle, who are both products of the American Roots Music Program at Berklee College ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill ...

Buck Trent, who invented the electric banjo and played on Dolly Parton's biggest hits, died three years ago today at age 85.

Tales from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival” with at least a half dozen musicians cut into a rapid-fire repetition of “father ...

These are three of the best uptempo country songs from 1984, which still make me want to dance when I hear them today.

Community bankers sued the Trump administration on Friday after regulators moved to grant bank charters to a wave of cryptocurrency companies, the latest chapter in a fight between traditional banking ...

Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Alaska. She also writes ...

On Friday, Oct. 16, the Mountain Stage radio show will record a future broadcast with a night of live performances in Boone ...

San Francisco is a land of many music festivals, but none captures the spirit of the city quite like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. This weekend the festival takes over Golden Gate Park with six stages of ...