Bluegrass ground-breaker leans into pop, rock on new album

She’s the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association’s best guitarist award, as well as the genre’s ...
Rolling Stone

‘The Mount Rushmore of Festivals’: Zach Top Wows Telluride Bluegrass Fest

The 52nd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival brought a stellar lineup to the Colorado mountain town this weekend, with artists from Zach Top and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit to Alison Krauss & Union ...
Miami New Times

Sawgrass Bluegrass

Plenty of Miamians badmouth the city’s putrid local music scene (oops, there we go again). But South Florida Bluegrass Association, which holds monthly concerts, has played music in the backwoods of ...
Yahoo

Billy Strings brings electrifying bluegrass to West Virginia

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) – Acclaimed Bluegrass musician Billy Strings, is making a tour stop in West Virginia soon. According to the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center website, Billy Strings will be ...
Times Argus

Virtuoso bluegrass banjo from Noam Pikelny

Banjo virtuoso and Punch Brothers band member Noam Pikelny is bringing some of the best musicians in bluegrass — Bryan Sutton (guitar), Jesse Cobb (mandolin), Luke Bulla (fiddle) and Barry Bales (bass ...
Lexington Herald Leader

Next generation of bluegrass musicians trained at this Kentucky arts center

Leeds Center launches Bluegrass University for ages 11-18 in Winchester, KY. Weekly classes teach band skills, harmony and stage confidence. Program aims to preserve Kentucky bluegrass amid genre's ...