Summer may be winding down but it’s not all bad. After all, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is right around the corner. The annual free music festival, which harkens back to a San Francisco culture of old, ...

Stash Wyslouch’s version of Jimmy Martin’s 1961 song “My Walking Shoes” starts out as a pretty standard bluegrass tune: nimble flatpicked guitar, an insistent backbeat, close vocal harmonies. Then, ...

Music fans gathered Saturday in Sebastopol to revel in tunes and a fellowship that aficionados say is particular to bluegrass and folk music. About 400 people turned up for the 14th annual Sonoma ...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass returned to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, celebrating its 25th year with three days of free music, sunshine and a familiar sense of joy. Founded in 2001 by the late ...

To many, Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass. But listen to his Blue Grass Boys and you’ll hear echoes of the man who mentored Monroe — fiddler and guitarist Arnold Shultz, the son of a ...