American Songwriter

6 Bluegrass Songs Featuring Mesmerizing Banjo Solos

Bluegrass aficionados recognize the pivotal role of banjo instrumentation in crafting its vibrant sound. While instruments like fiddles, upright basses, guitars, and mandolins contribute significantly ...
MusicFestNews

Béla Fleck and friends push the boundaries of bluegrass in Gainesville

Bela Fleck and My Bluegrass Heart provided a night of expansive and creative acoustic music at the Performing Arts Center in ...
Rolling Stone

Earl Scruggs Shaped Bluegrass — and Jam-Grass Too. A New Festival Aims to Revive His Legacy

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...
That Eric Alper

Steve Martin And Alison Brown Give Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” A Bluegrass Makeover

Old Town Road” has travelled quite a distance since Lil Nas X turned it into a global phenomenon, but Steve Martin and Alison ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Artist Profile: Alison H. Brown ’84 Brings Genre-Defying Bluegrass Back to Cambridge

The trip back to the place that started it all left Alison H. Brown ’84 with a recognition of how far she has come.

Sun: Baltimore band turns Edgar Allan Poe’s gloom into foot-tapping bluegrass

Meet Edgar Allan and The Poe Boys, a banjo-picking, guitar-strumming bluegrass band from Baltimore whose namesake would surely turn in his grave if he knew thei ...
Rolling Stone

Earl Scruggs Would’ve Turned 100 This Year. Bluegrass Is Still Playing His Songs

Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His ...