Chris Hirsch had never really enjoyed school. He had started college, and he was making commendable grades. He just didn't like it. After five semesters at St. Edward's University in Austin and then ...

Banjo innovator Tony Trischka will bring stories, songs and memories of bluegrass legends to the Museum of Making Music in ...

Steve Martin's Tuesday night concert at Carnegie Hall was billed as "An Evening of Banjo and Bluegrass." But he couldn't resist adding some comedy to the mix, sprinkling some novelty songs into his ...

Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan, from left, formed I'm With Her after singing together at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “Bathrooms sound great, everyone knows that,” O’Donovan says.

You'll need your stomping shoes for Saturday's concert with The Blades of Grass and the Timmons Family at Gumboro Fire Hall. In addition to the homebrewed tunes, home cooked food will be for sale, ...

Swinging Bridge: 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays at Ricaltinis Resturant, 1997 Kentucky Ave., Englewood; 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays at Ragin Cajun, 4104 El Jobean Road, Port Charlotte; Fourth Friday of the ...

What constitutes bluegrass music? Does it need to be all acoustic? Can it ever be electric? Does it always include a banjo, a mandolin, a dobro and fiddles? If it ventures into jam band territory, is ...

ALTON — Fiddlin’ Banjo Billy Mathews has been playing music since he was 8 years old when he started piano lessons. Around the age of 13, he added the guitar, and then picked up the banjo during his ...

Boulder-raised Dylan McCarthy and the other members of Jake Leg are no strangers to the Front Range bluegrass community. McCarthy, the group’s principal songwriter, and his talented bandmates have ...