Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out played to the late afternoon crowd at Festival of the Bluegrass on July 9, 2017. The traditional festival won’t be coming back after 46 years but a new bluegrass music ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

When Billy Strings, neé William Apostol, decided to call his 2019 album Home, he wasn't being metaphorical: Music is a very real home for the flat-picking virtuoso and singer-songwriter, dating all ...

Many bluegrass bands are born from a bluegrass pick. It’s a story this column has referenced in the past: the “pick” being an informal collection of musicians playing an even less formal concert, ...

Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, co-founder of the U.S.-based bluegrass band “The Hillbilly Thomists,” is pictured in Rome March 13, 2021. (Credit: Robert Duncan/CNS.) Listen ROME — Rome’s ...

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, ...

It’s the day before New Year’s Eve in Nashville, and Molly Tuttle is in a dressing room at the Ryman Auditorium, getting ready to open Old Crow Medicine Show’s annual year-end concerts later that ...

A while back I was attending an iconic bluegrass artist’s concert with a friend. As the night neared its end, my buddy was getting a bit tired after a long run of slower tunes and declared, “OK, let’s ...