Originally conceived as a passion project" by producer Mike Raspatello, the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival would prove to be the next great landmark in Chicago music culture. Drawing a crowd of ...

Bluegrass music has roots in American and European folk songs. Like folk music, the genre has certain pieces considered bluegrass standards, which have been adapted more times than anyone could ...

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, ...

I used to spend lots of my time at bluegrass festivals in the 1970s. These events were usually held on meadows in the forests of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Western Maryland. A few were ...

Live music has been gone for what seems like forever, and it may stay gone until who knows when. But the pandemic hasn’t stopped the flow of the recorded variety, and there’s been plenty of new music ...

Mike Post has written the music for more classic TV series than anyone else: “The Rockford Files,” “Hill Street Blues,” “The Greatest American Hero,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “The A-Team,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD ...

From now through Thanksgiving and beyond, fans of all types of country music — from Top 40 country to bluegrass to rockabilly to roots-rock — can expect some great entertainment in the Reno-Tahoe area ...

When guitarist Tony Rice died on Christmas Day in his North Carolina home, bluegrass music bade farewell to a second-generation star who expressed his music in modern terms and embraced bluegrass’s ...

Jeff Brown examines the recent popular reemergence of bluegrass music. A hot summer night in the hills of east Tennessee, the latest stop for the "Down from the Mountain" national tour, part of the ...

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