His updated version of an old-timey approach enhanced recordings by everyone from Bill Monroe to the Rolling Stones. By Bill Friskics-Warren Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who ...

The influential bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, a mainstay of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys for 23 years, died July 8 in Gallatin, Tenn., after suffering a stroke. He was 85. No musician enjoyed a ...

A Grammy-award-winning bluegrass fiddler is bringing his band to the Norwood Village Green concert series on Sunday. Michael Cleveland was born in Henryville, Indiana, and began playing music when he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 21—When Ivy Phillips and her brother were home-schooled, her mother enrolled her in music lessons, and the power of music ...

Mar. 11—Acoustic musicians are coming to Owensboro on Saturday from 12 states — as far away as Colorado — to compete in the 48th Official Kentucky State Fiddle Championship at the Bluegrass Music Hall ...

Eight-year-old Finn Kemp, right, looks up at the stage Saturday morning with other young musicians before playing a set at the Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival near Hamilton. Kemp has been studying the ...

For the past few years, just ahead of Kentucky Derby time, visitors arriving into Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport would be greeted by live bluegrass, a defining sound of the region ...

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 ...

Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...

Will success spoil Alison Krauss? The pressure is certainly building. On July 3, 21-year-old Krauss became the first bluegrass player in 29 years to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. That night, ...