Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1974, when he was 10 years old, Sam Karr attended the very first Festival of the Bluegrass. The event triggered a sense of ...

“When I came back, it really shot a shockwave into acoustic musicians," he explained of his shift back to roots music after dominating country charts Ricky Skaggs reflected on his genre-crossing ...

If examples of how Billy Strings unassumingly cemented himself as figurehead for a new bluegrass music generation could have been whittled down to just one instance at his sold-out two-night ...

The Seldom Scene played the annual Festival of the Bluegrass at the Kentucky Horse Park in 2016. They will be back for the inaugural Spirit in the Bluegrass. Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com In ...

Ricky Skaggs reflected on his genre-crossing career and pivotal shift from bluegrass to country in the 1980s He returned to bluegrass in the mid-1990s after Bill Monroe's death, reigniting interest in ...

In 1974, when he was 10 years old, Sam Karr attended the very first Festival of the Bluegrass. The event triggered a sense of involvement that would bring him back — year after year and, eventually, ...

Ricky Skaggs knows a thing or two about musical versatility. For decades, Skaggs' career has been marked by his prolific, seamless shifts between genres. As a result, his critically lauded works have ...