The banjo has been seen as the characteristic instrument of bluegrass music. For 70 years, it wasn’t bluegrass unless it featured a banjo. Many suggest that’s still true, that bluegrass has lost its way when it plugs in, uses other […]
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Ricky Skaggs presenting a Tribute to Ralph Stanley at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
Rickey Skaggs and Danny Paisley in a special tribute to Ralph Stanley at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
Claire Lynch with Ricky Skaggs in special tribute to Ralph Stanley at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
Claire Lynch at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
On Monday afternoon, numbed from days — or rather months — of wall-to-wall political talk focused at least somewhat on analysis of poll after poll on two of the three cable news channels, Irene slipped a rented film into our […]
John Cowan has been on bluegrass fans’ radar since he first joined the ground-breaking New Grass Revival on bass and singing lead tenor, in 1974. Cowan’s command of the vocals in that group came much to founding member and bluegrass […]
I don’t know Robert Catlin — I never met him — but he and I have been friends on Facebook since September. I can tell he loves bluegrass music and his family, and that the experiences he has surrounding bluegrass seem […]
This year’s IBMA Awards Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, appears to have been a transitional one in which younger bands like Flatt Lonesome emerged for major awards. It was also a year in which a Flatt & Scruggs cover band, The […]
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