The idea came as music instructors at the college noted an increase in the number of bluegrass musicians in the area. "There's been a real revival in roots music that goes back to our founding days ...

Sam Bush has covered about all the acoustic music ground one could imagine.He has collaborated with virtually every prominent bluegrass picker there is, played and recorded with country superstars, ...

At Boston's Berklee College of Music, a school founded as an incubator of jazz and steeped in the syntax of cool, the pluck of the banjo was a sound disdained. The bluegrass instrument was considered ...

Bluegrass fans say the mountain-inspired music helps kids understand history—and themselves. In the Atlanta suburb where 13-year-old Sarah Schneider lives, the instrument tucked under her chin is ...

ASPEN ” Fiddle? Check. Mandolin? Yep. Guitar? You betcha. And that guitar isn’t one of them newfangled electrified ones, is it? No, sir! And most important ” banjo? Oh yeah. Yes, Trampled by Turtles ...