Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kitchen fire prevented the Western Hills Winter Bluegrass Festival from happening last year at Sequoyah Lodge, but musicians and ...

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will continue its 2025-2026 season this March with concerts that herald St. Patrick’s Day, highlight the festive energy of cherished folk traditions, and ...

If anyone finds themselves fiddling around this weekend with nothing to do, the Kentucky State Fiddle Championship is on ...

NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with fiddler Darol Anger, who teams up with several talented young modern bluegrass players for a new CD that evokes music from around the globe. "Republic of Strings" by ...

For the past few years, just ahead of Kentucky Derby time, visitors arriving into Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport would be greeted by live bluegrass, a defining sound of the region ...

Will success spoil Alison Krauss? The pressure is certainly building. On July 3, 21-year-old Krauss became the first bluegrass player in 29 years to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. That night, ...

Mar. 11—Acoustic musicians are coming to Owensboro on Saturday from 12 states — as far away as Colorado — to compete in the 48th Official Kentucky State Fiddle Championship at the Bluegrass Music Hall ...

GRANITE QUARRY — Steve Kilby doesn’t remember if he attended the first ever Granite Quarry Civitan Fiddlers Convention in 1967, but he hasn’t missed many since. Originally from North Wilkesboro, Steve ...

Former News Channel 11 anchor Tim Cable oversaw one of the region’s most popular series: Cable Country. In 2003, Cable ...

Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...

Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who expanded the vocabulary of his instrument while also establishing it as an integral voice in country-rock on recordings by Bob Dylan, the ...