A year and a half ago, 71-year-old Paul Curvin of Wellington laid down one of his beloved guitars after performing at a local bluegrass event. The well-known guitar player told his family he wanted to ...

Springfield, MO music store The Acoustic Shoppe has shared footage of this year's National Flat-picking Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas – held between 13 and 17 ...

Every year, the town of Lyons comes alive for a week with the old-timey sounds of bluegrass – fiddling, flatpicking, strumming and rapid-fire fingerpicking. We’re talkin’ about the Rockygrass ...

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 ...

The early years of bluegrass music can be traced back to the 1940s in Appalachia. With roots in music styles like English folk and Appalachian music, the genre served as the inspiration and basis for ...

Tony Rice, the bluegrass guitarist and vocalist known for his elegant, innovative flatpicking, died Friday at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 69. Rice’s death was confirmed by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six bluegrass guitarists you need to hear. From the iconic roots planted by Bill Monroe to innovators like Billy Strings and Molly ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Judy Banfield had lost contact with childhood friend Pete Wernick until she saw him at a summer reunion last year. Yes, she knew Wernick became a ...