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 ...

Multiple stringed instrument players and musical performers from across the country came together to downtown Owensboro this weekend, playing the likes of banjo, guitar and mandolin tunes during the ...

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 ...

Experience Bronwyn Keith-Hines and Kyle Tuttle live at Thrasher Opera House on April 4. A high‑energy bluegrass show with world‑class musicians.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the age of four, Michael Cleveland has always wanted to play music. His grandparents took him to his first bluegrass shows as a young child and for him it was love at first note ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...

Fiddle Fest organizers want people to save the date: Feb. 28, 2026. That's when the 10th annual Fiddle Fest will be held, once again at Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa. The ninth annual ...

The saucy dance of old-fashioned fiddle music. The persistent chuckle of a banjo. The chirp of a mandolin. The curling notes of the dobro. The many voices of the versatile guitar. It all adds up to ...

With a bluegrass concert and dance series this weekend and the 19 th Midwinter Singing Festival next weekend, Ten Pound Fiddle is heating up the cold winter days. At 7:30 p.m., on Friday, Jan. 26, ...

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 ...

My first attempt to reach fiddler Casey Driessen at his Nashville home failed. It wasn’t that Driessen didn’t answer. It’s that, over the cries of his 10-month-old daughter, I couldn’t hear him. By ...