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A popular summer tradition is returning to the Historic Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell. The 23rd annual Tazewell County Old Time and Bluegrass Fiddlers' Convention will be held on ...

Open to VIOLINISTS of all ages, all abilities, and all levels of experience. In this course we’ll learn a classic bluegrass fiddle tune by ear. We’ll look at how the bow is used in a fiddle tune to ...

If you're a bluegrass fan, you need to have Bronwyn on your radar. Many of you may recognize her from Molly Tuttle & Golden ...

Bluegrass fiddle player and singer-songwriter Sara Watkins first found fame with the band Nickel Creek and counts Levon Helm and Garrison Keillor among her fans. But can she help Emma John improve her ...

There’s never been a better time to be young and rootsy. Today’s new crop of bluegrass and string-band musicians is younger and more accomplished than any batch of musicians since the teenage days of ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Dozens of musicians converge on the Appalachian Fiddle and Bluegrass Association’s Bluegrass Shindig at the Plainfield Twp. Volunteer Fire Company on Sunday. Dangerous, near ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. - For decades a barber in Bristol was known for the bluegrass music he and his fellow musicians would play in his shop. Gene Boyd is retired now, and battling cancer. But his friends ...

On a quiet Monday night in an empty pub in North Beach, the fiddle of Brian Theriault can be heard crying from a far corner. It is just one instrument in a traditional Irish session that includes ...

The Pocono Bluegrass & Folk Society will hold a shindig and at noon Sunday at Pocono Plaza Inn, 1220 Main St., Stroudsburg. During the event, the society will also hold the 35th annual Ron Nauman ...