Bill Monroe, known as the "Father of Bluegrass Music," was born 100 years ago this week in rural Kentucky. He influenced early country music and rock 'n' roll, as well as the hard-driving, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spirit of Bill Monroe watches over the musical festivals at Brown County's Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground. Brown County's ...

Bill Monroe transmuted childhood tragedy into an entirely new genre of music. The original singer of the popular Elvis Presley hit “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” Monroe blended “Scottish bagpipes and ...

No single figure in American music so dominated a genre as did Bill Monroe with bluegrass BILL MONROE FATHER OF BLUEGRASS MUSIC features performances by Bill Monroe amp the Blue Grass Boys Lester ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

“Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world.”– Bill Monroe, the “Father of Bluegrass” “Big Family: The Story Of Bluegrass Music” offers a ...

Bill Monroe sang fondly of Kentucky, the state of his birth, and made its blue moon famous. So it was quite a tribute to Indiana that the so-called “Father of Bluegrass Music,” after playing a gig ...

Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, towered over the tow-haired first-grader he’d just pulled on stage in Martha, Kentucky. The kid wasn’t supposed to be part of the show, but the audience kept ...

This week's "Music Notes" covers a number of events in honor of King Records 75th anniversary in September, tickets going on sale this week for John Mellencamps's February tour coming to the Aronoff, ...

Features performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, John Hartford and a ...

Brown County's Bill Monroe's Music Park and Campground is hosting its annual Bluegrass Festival, a nine-day camping retreat of music, workshops, jams both throughout the campground and on stage, and ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.