"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 ...

He bends over the old instrument, his eyes narrowed, the tortoise-shell pick in his right hand working rapid runs up and down a fretboard that’s as black as an old peat bog. The sounds are tuneful yet ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

Chris Hirsch had never really enjoyed school. He had started college, and he was making commendable grades. He just didn't like it. After five semesters at St. Edward's University in Austin and then ...

Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan, from left, formed I'm With Her after singing together at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “Bathrooms sound great, everyone knows that,” O’Donovan says.

Steve Martin's Tuesday night concert at Carnegie Hall was billed as "An Evening of Banjo and Bluegrass." But he couldn't resist adding some comedy to the mix, sprinkling some novelty songs into his ...

What constitutes bluegrass music? Does it need to be all acoustic? Can it ever be electric? Does it always include a banjo, a mandolin, a dobro and fiddles? If it ventures into jam band territory, is ...

Norman Adams is no stranger to the bluegrass festival circuit. For the last 43 years, he and his wife, Judy, have run Adams Bluegrass, LLC bringing a variety of bluegrass music festivals to the ...

When the news broke earlier this week informing us of Sonny Osborne’s passing, my mind raced back to when I first heard him and sibling Bobby – bluegrass music’s indomitable Osborne Brothers – on a ...

Think of the banjo and what comes to mind? Country music? Bluegrass? Dixieland? The “Dueling Banjos” of Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell? Earl Scruggs? The “Beverly Hillbillies” theme song he co-wrote ...

Of course, he explains it all with a joke. Actor/writer/comedian/dude-allergic-to-free-time Steve Martin has been embarking on a new, old pursuit of late: writing ...