The Dead set the stage for generations of jam bands. At the same time, folk, bluegrass, and country music made up the heart of their sound for years. As a result, many high-level country and ...

The White Gull series debuted in November 1983 with performances that White Gull innkeeper and folk/bluegrass music buff ... (as well as every other major country music songwriting award) for ...

The five members of The Ruta Beggars hail from across the country and even from another country. Their shared passion for bluegrass and folk music coalesced on the campus of ...

Penn Live Arts will present Old Crow Medicine Show, one night only, Thursday, May 22, at 7:30 PM at the Annenberg Center for ...

Often, the stories told in bluegrass and folk songs are sad. They’re about lost or unrequited love, death, war, poverty and struggle. But they’re also about faith, remembrance and hope — and present a ...

In this lesson, I will be focusing on the techniques and approaches of three early country artists: Merle Travis, Lester ...

By Jessica Nicholson Buck White, the patriarch of country and bluegrass music group The Whites ... formed as Buck White & the Down Home Folks, and as White’s daughters Sharon and Cheryl began ...

Since 1988, fans of American roots music (country, folk, bluegrass, Americana and more) have been flocking to Wilkesboro in Western North Carolina for MerleFest, which is considered one of the ...

Valley Flower is a 5-piece string band of friends who met picking in the Central Texas bluegrass scene by way of Virginia, ...

The eclectic blend of bluegrass, blues, country, folk, jazz and rock music that forged the career of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, among numerous other 70s-era luminaries, will be ...