The Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention is getting ready to kick off its 59th year in Athens.

The International Bluegrass Music Association conference, awards ceremony, Bluegrass Ramble and World of Bluegrass is in Raleigh, NC, Sept. 25-29, 2018. Find our stories here. From the N&O archives — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 15—TAZEWELL, Va. — Clear summer weather and historic cabins were the backdrop Friday for vintage music as the Tazewell County ...

Writer Grayson Haver Currin chases tunes on the Crooked Road, a 330-mile route of glorious highway dedicated to homegrown ...

Here are 10 area artists and songs to jump start your journey into Nashville's ongoing bluegrass and old-time artistry. The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. is where bluegrass debuted in 1945, and ...

Not much gets a bluegrass crowd worked up quite like the sound of a banjo player on a white-lightning clawhammer tear, and the one at the annual Bootheel Bluegrass Festival was no different. As the ...

Thirty-three years together and the Lee Valley String Band are better than ever writes David Monagan. IF YOU want a unique musical experience, full of joyous, foot-stomping American songs like the ...

A performance by two of the founding members of the New Lost City Ramblers — the highly influential string band that jump-started the folk music revival (some called it the “folk scare”) in the 1950s ...

Frank Lee jokes that he doesn’t want to give bluegrass a bad name. But what Lee really wants to do is make clear the distinction between the old-time music he plays, which derives from Delta blues and ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — ETSU’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program will present four nights of livestreamed performances from The Down Home in Johnson City next week. The ...