Just about 70 years ago today, December 8, 1945, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs first stepped on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and a storm erupted. For years, Bill Monroe had been […]
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Nashville singer-songwriter Sierra Hull, one of the opening performers at the 43rd RockyGrass Festival over the weekend, has impressed audiences with her mandolin playing since performing for her third-grade class in Byrdstown, Tennessee. Coming up through the bluegrass ranks, she’s […]
Bela Fleck was a young man — just 24 — when he made Natural Bridge in 1982, but it wasn’t his first album, nor even his first solo album. Young though he was, the New York native was already something […]
Bela Fleck says everything he plays is “colored by the bluegrass heartland,” which would seem a self-evident statement for a banjo player. But since the early 1990s, Fleck and his band, the Flecktones, have repeatedly taken the banjo to uncharted […]
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