The Kentucky Folklife Program is pleased to announce the 2025 winner of the Homer Ledford Award. Based at Western Kentucky ...

The Homer Ledford Award celebrates the legacy and creative industry of traditional stringed instrument makers who are vital ...

Railbird Music Festival is set to be held from May 31, 2025, to June 1, 2025, at The Infield at Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky.

Three-time Grammy nominees the Steep Canyon Rangers are headed to Fort Collins at the end of the month. As of today, the band has released 17 studio albums, including three collaborative albums with ...

Bluegrass and old-time mountain music will fill the air at the WV Culture Center for two days, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, sponsored ...

Two weeks after Amanda Martin graduated from Saranac Central School in 1999, she packed up her maroon Pontiac and headed to ...

Whether it be under the name Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Music or, most frequently, Bonnie Prince Billy, Will Oldham can lay claim to being one of the most prolific artists of our times. Barely a ...

Brown moved to Nashville from Eastern Kentucky, following a dream to play ... Brown's bandmate David Freeman plucks the mandolin. "We do these tribute nights," Freeman says.

Here’s a kid from Bowling Green, Kentucky who predicates his love for bluegrass on ... The late great Tony Rice gave the mandolin its name after John Hartford played it banjo-style on his 1972 album ...

According to The Whites' Skaggs Family Records bio, White launched his music career by playing mandolin and piano ... group to sing on her 1979 album Blue Kentucky Girl; they then joined Harris ...

Bluegrass enthusiasts will soon have the chance to immerse themselves in the rich sounds of the beloved genre at the ...