Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...

At age 19, Isaac Rohrbach might be deemed a throwback to the days of old, and not just because he plays an oblong, octagonal upright bass that he made himself to perform in a bluegrass-gospel-country ...

MANSFIELD – Melanie Rodgers, 70, started playing the violin in the Mansfield Symphony during her time as a student at Mansfield Senior High School. Rodgers, who now plays the fiddle with the ...

The Share America Foundation, Inc. announced its second 2011 scholarship winner, Mike Holloway at its Sacred Sounds Fridays concert featuring Testimony Quartet at the Ringgold Depot. The events help ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., has been ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- With his flowing white beard, cowboy boots, and down-home humor, Eldon Bryson, 82, plies his trade with easy grace at the Fiddle Shop. “I’m used to stuff being piled up,” he says on ...

DelFest, the annual event hosted by Del McCoury, is often described as a bluegrass festival, even though only a minority of the acts are traditional bluegrass bands. Many a casual observer assumes ...

For Conor Smith of Quincy, Mass., playing music has always been a passion. So when his wife took a job at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, it was an easy decision for the 35-year-old, ...

With a bluegrass concert and dance series this weekend and the 19 th Midwinter Singing Festival next weekend, Ten Pound Fiddle is heating up the cold winter days. At 7:30 p.m., on Friday, Jan. 26, ...

“A Day of Bluegrass” at the St. Helena Odd Fellows Hall last Saturday was an effort by the Northern California Bluegrass Society to drum up interest in a style of music that hardly ever includes drums ...