It took Greensky Bluegrass 15 years but they finally made the Billboard Top 200 album chart. In September, their most recent album, If Sorrows Swim, which came out the same month, debuted at No. 127 ...

In the early days of bluegrass music, two companies were largely responsible for creating that sound – Martin, for its guitars, and Gibson, for its mandolins and banjos. Even today, bluegrass ...

STURTEVANT -- The Route 20 Bluegrass Jam is for anyone and everyone who sings and/or plays a bluegrass instrument: guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass or dobro! They jam on the 1st and 3rd Thursday ...

Every June, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival brings out many of the same performers, and the same fans, for four days of fun (usually) in the sun surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in ...

Despite their name, Greensky Bluegrass is not your typical bluegrass band (a point that is more often than not addressed when discussing their music). They’re a fully acoustic five-member outfit: no ...

Bluegrass fans say the mountain-inspired music helps kids understand history—and themselves. In the Atlanta suburb where 13-year-old Sarah Schneider lives, the instrument tucked under her chin is ...

“‘Bluegrass is going to be big this year’ is what I heard when I started playing around 1964, and every year after that for 20 years!” John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recalls. And while “big ...

The idea came as music instructors at the college noted an increase in the number of bluegrass musicians in the area. "There's been a real revival in roots music that goes back to our founding days ...