On the surface, there might seem to be a world of difference between jazz and bluegrass music. Jazz is predominantly urban and often deals with relatively complex structures, chords and key changes.

On the surface, there might seem to be a world of difference between jazz and bluegrass music. Jazz is predominantly urban and often deals with relatively complex structures, chords and key changes.

In the early days of bluegrass music, two companies were largely responsible for creating that sound – Martin, for its guitars, and Gibson, for its mandolins and banjos. Even today, bluegrass ...

Bluegrass fans say the mountain-inspired music helps kids understand history—and themselves. In the Atlanta suburb where 13-year-old Sarah Schneider lives, the instrument tucked under her chin is ...

To its faithful, bluegrass inspires devotion for everything from its distinctive instrumental voices to its close vocal harmonies to its exacting insistence on good musicianship. But sometimes, the ...

Hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan—the city where Orville Gibson first started building acoustic guitars and mandolins over a century ago— Greensky Bluegrass have developed a progressive style over ...

Every June, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival brings out many of the same performers, and the same fans, for four days of fun (usually) in the sun surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in ...

Sam Bush has covered about all the acoustic music ground one could imagine.He has collaborated with virtually every prominent bluegrass picker there is, played and recorded with country superstars, ...

STURTEVANT -- The Route 20 Bluegrass Jam is for anyone and everyone who sings and/or plays a bluegrass instrument: guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass or dobro! They jam on the 1st and 3rd Thursday ...

It took Greensky Bluegrass 15 years but they finally made the Billboard Top 200 album chart. In September, their most recent album, If Sorrows Swim, which came out the same month, debuted at No. 127 ...

The idea came as music instructors at the college noted an increase in the number of bluegrass musicians in the area. "There's been a real revival in roots music that goes back to our founding days ...

People often say that music is the great unifier. For instance, you can go to a concert and be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of strangers but everyone has at least one thing in common—love for ...