Although 16-year-old Jordan Young grew up listening to bluegrass music, he was never a big fan. “I listened to it a little, but it wasn’t my favorite type of music,” the Independence High School ...

Mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis pairs with Marty Stuart for the new music video "Blue Smoke." - Credit: Laci Mack* Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the ...

From Old and in the Way to NPR’s Car Talk, from the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty to his collaborations with mandolinist-clarinetist Andy Statman, David Grisman and his mandolin have seemed like old ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It's another Tuesday night at the Curbside Coffee shop on Cleveland's West Side, and Harold King, a 71-year-old guitar player, is off the bandstand clog dancing with 75-year-old ...

Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at the age of 89. With his brother Ralph, Frank Wakefield ...

Sister Sadie was nominated for a Grammy Award this year with Sister Sadie for “Best Bluegrass Album.” “I was very honored. To be recognized in the top five of your genre for a Grammy Award is ...

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Boulder born and raised, 2019 RockyGrass champion mandolinist Dylan McCarthy made his way through a lot of styles before settling on becoming a master bluegrass picker. He started playing classical ...

Fender introduced its Paramount Series for discriminating acoustic players at Winter NAMM 2016, and the company has been busy updating and augmenting it in 2022. Fender started off the year with three ...

Bluegrass may qualify as the ultimate "sharing music." In rock bands and most other genres, musicians soloing on stage have a "Look at me" attitude. In bluegrass jams, it's more like, "Look at him" or ...

The story goes that Monroe, hearing about the boy s talents, brought him up on stage and Skaggs played his first performance in front of an audience. Skaggs, now considered Monroe s bluegrass heir, ...