The International Bluegrass Music Association conference, awards ceremony, Bluegrass Ramble and World of Bluegrass is in Raleigh, NC, Sept. 25-29, 2018. Find our stories here. From the N&O archives — ...

The Wilders are (from left) Phil Wade, Ike Sheldon, Betse Ellis and Nate Gawron. One of Lawrence’s fastest growing holiday traditions is often described as a “Grand Ole Opry-style show of Christmas ...

Park Slope is a long way from the hills and hollers of Appalachia, but you would never know it at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture where for two days in September the fiddlin’ is furious and ...

GALAX, Va. — Ellie Massey, 13, stands inside a giant, yellow tent with dozens of other contestants and practices singing the gospel tune, "I'll Fly Away." Her grandfather, Jim Coleman, and uncle, ...

Frank Lee jokes that he doesn’t want to give bluegrass a bad name. But what Lee really wants to do is make clear the distinction between the old-time music he plays, which derives from Delta blues and ...

Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...