Béla Fleck turns 68 today. The Grammy-winning virtuoso, called 'The World's Best Banjoist,' has spent decades pushing the ...

Back in the late ‘50s or maybe the early ‘60s, before he was a bluegrass icon, Del McCoury had a day job driving dump truck for a quarry in Thomasville. One of his regular routes took him south on ...

On this day (October 29) in 1937, Sonny Osborne was born in Thousandsticks, Kentucky. After learning to play the banjo as a child, he formed a group with his brother, Bobby Osborne. Together, the ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

On this day (January 6) in 1924, Earl Scruggs was born in Flint Hill, North Carolina. He was a member of two of the most influential bluegrass groups. Moreover, he was at the forefront of the genre in ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

He developed the three-finger style that made the banjo a "front" instrument Scruggs and Lester Flatt were part of the musical team that made modern bluegrass The banjo, for years in the background, ...

If bluegrass had existed in the 18th century, Mozart’s ‘Rondo alla Turca’ would have sounded something like this… ‘Rondo alla Turca’ is one of Mozart’s most ear-wormy tunes. It’s fast, twiddly and a ...