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 ...
The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...
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 ...
The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...
PALO ALTO -- With Grammy Awards set for Sunday, CBS News Bay Area introduces you to the man who taught nominee Molly Tuttle how to play bluegrass music - her father, Jack Tuttle. He took CBS News Bay ...
As the first World of Bluegrass crept to a close last year in downtown Raleigh, Chatham County Line stepped on a Fayetteville Street stage to deliver a history-heavy ode to the festival’s arrival: ...