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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Natalie Padilla was just a sprite playing with her friends, her mother, who was on stage playing bluegrass with her fiddle, spotted Natalie with two sticks, copying her mother. Natalie doesn’t ...

"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 ...

John James of Tannersville performs on fiddle (from left) alongside John Updike of Stroudsburg (banjo), Jim Schaffer of Emmaus (bass) and Neil Morris of Nazareth (guitar), as they rehearse before a ...

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 ...

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 and buckdancing, to make airport delays sound a little sweeter. What do you do when you’re a violinist, and your flight is delayed for five hours? While on her travels in the US, this young ...

This tune is thelead single to from her upcoming studio album, Distance And Time, which will be released on July 17. It also marks her third release on Dark Shadow Recording. It is upbeat, catchy, and ...