When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.

For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring, N.C., for its fourth annual event on August 29-31. Continuing tradition, the occasion will take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center.

Also a mandolinist, he performed alongside his brother, Jim, in an act that lasted 55 years. He continued performing after his brother’s death. By Bill Friskics-Warren The Earl Scruggs Center, which ...

On May 22, an all-star crew of Americana, bluegrass and country stars joined forces at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to elevate the legacy of bluegrass icon Earl Scruggs. Country Music ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On Saturday, January 6, 2024, a stellar lineup of bluegrass and country ...

The fourth annual Earl Scruggs Music Festival has officially kicked off in the mountains. The iconic bluegrass music event is taking place this weekend at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in ...

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