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Kenneth "Kenny" Baker, the longest-tenured member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, would have turned 100 years old today.

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 ...

He was a stone-faced fireplug the day I met him, too shy to look me in the eye, too shy to crack even the slightest of smiles. Soon it became obvious, however. There was something special about 8-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music will be in heaven this weekend in Tuscaloosa. The 2025 Fiddle Fest and Southeastern ...

The sounds of fiddles, banjos and bluegrass music will soon fill the air in Abingdon.The 5th annual Bluegrass and Gospel Fiddlers' Convention returns next weeke ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bluegrass, which sounds as old as the hills, actually was invented in the 1940s by Monroe, Scruggs, Flatt, Chubby and a handful of other Southern boys. They played acoustic string instruments (fiddle, ...

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 ...

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 ...