Leeds Center launches Bluegrass University for ages 11-18 in Winchester, KY. Weekly classes teach band skills, harmony and stage confidence. Program aims to preserve Kentucky bluegrass amid genre's ...

As he engages in internal ciphering to determine the elapsed time since his career switched from the traditionally minded country music he took to the top of the charts during the ’80s back to the ...

KENTUCKY, USA — The music produces images. Listen to a bluegrass record and the common themes appear: family, relationships, God and the beautiful state from which this music was born. Kentucky is ...

Weary Ramblers racked up two more awards this week in a growing list of accomplishments. The duo’s song, “Kentucky Never Seemed So Blue,” has been awarded the Overall Grand Prize ...

Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder closed the 30th year of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman on Thursday with some sing-along gospel songs and a whole lot of pickin’ and grinnin’. “To be able to ...

After three days of often brutal heat, attendees of the ROMP bluegrass music festival caught a break with the weather Saturday, as a morning rain shower gave way to a cooler day that provided a ...

BAINBRIDGE — The Kevin Prater Band will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25 at the Bainbridge Town Hall Theatre at 15 N. Main St. According to a media release, band from the hills of Appalachia, ...

Daxson Lewis (Class of 2016), director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, was nominated for Banjo Performer of the Year at the 2026 Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in ...

Born on this day in 1931 in Thousandsticks, Kentucky, Bobby Osborne and younger brother Sonny helped expand the parameters of bluegrass music when they formed a musical group in the ’60s. From then on ...

American Idol is far from its heyday in the 2000s, when the nation’s first reality music contest created superstars like ...

Looking for a unique Valentine's Day playlist? Discover how to create a personalized music compilation, including seven ...

A local arts space celebrating its centennial has launched a new program centered around propping up the next generation of bluegrass musicians. Bluegrass University, the new initiative from ...