"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 ...

A solid bluegrass musician should be well versed in the bluegrass catalog. That catalog being the list of decades old tunes all bluegrass musicians will dig into, whether those musicians are seasoned ...

Famous fiddle tune “The Orange Blossom Special” is to many bluegrass musicians as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” is to many rockers. Famous fiddler Michael Cleveland won’t turn up his nose at an “Orange ...

Bluegrass stalwart Molly Tuttle knows a thing or two about the genre: she has, after all, firmly established herself as bluegrass’ premier young talent, with her sizable repertoire winning accolades ...

Jubilantly playing her fiddle, 16-year-old Alani Sugar entertained library patrons with guitarist Greg Fury, of Olney. “I love that she’s so young and enthusiastic,” said Kathy Martin, of Eldersburg. ...

Colorado is the leading dealer in the sounds of upbeat and stretched-out bluegrass. The past five decades have seen dozens of string bands rear their sounds from the Centennial State, everyone from ...