A kitchen fire prevented the Western Hills Winter Bluegrass Festival from happening last year at Sequoyah Lodge, but ...

Mar. 21—When Ivy Phillips and her brother were home-schooled, her mother enrolled her in music lessons, and the power of music took hold. Phillips, who now teaches music full-time, made the drive from ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the age of four, Michael Cleveland has always wanted to play music. His grandparents took him to his first bluegrass shows as a young child and for him it was love at first note ...

From a young age, Michael Cleveland knew he was meant to play the fiddle. Cleveland has received numerous awards for his fiddle playing and, with his band Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, won the ...

Jubilantly playing her fiddle, 16-year-old Alani Sugar entertained library patrons with guitarist Greg Fury, of Olney. “I love that she’s so young and enthusiastic,” said Kathy Martin, of Eldersburg. ...

Pat Kay plays banjo with his band the Kay Brothers Traditional bluegrass music is a melting pot. It has roots in Appalachian, Celtic and jazz music, and musicologists trace the origins of the banjo ...

Like everyone else in her Pittsburgh family, Sue Cunningham was raised playing classical music. But Cunningham, who was trained on violin and played in orchestras from the age of 12, began to see the ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Fans of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music will be in heaven this weekend in Tuscaloosa. The 2025 Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship will be held Feb. 22 on the Martin Campus of Shelton ...

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