New music’s cool but have you ever heard old music? Old music is understandably relative. It can come with baggage, attachments, bias and context. It can ...

One of the all-time greats of bluegrass, Del McCoury, quietly passed through Marin County last week, playing a sold-out ...

Greensky Bluegrass welcomes collaborators including Billy Strings, Sam Bush, Holly Bowling and Lindsay Lou on the group’s new ...

The XXV record release and the Halloween shows this weekend will be full of nostalgia and excitement for both the band and their fans as well, so in an effort to reflect on a quarter century of ...

When Owensboro native Matthew Gray started playing music at the age of 5, it was for the love of the medium. And it was finding that passion early on that led the now 53-year-old to celebrate the 30th ...

Vape smoke wafts under the dim cone lights as two old men rotate the pool table, trading shots and cursing. As bluegrass music wails down the hall, people push back against the walls around the table, ...

A monumental stop on a musical journey that started with a Halloween house party: Greensky returns to its hometown for two ...

The Grammy-winning banjoists welcome fellow artists including Vince Gill, Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne and more on the new ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

There’s often a warning that comes with hearing banjos in the distance, a signifier that trouble lies just ahead. When traveling down Alabama’s County Road 2262 this weekend, you’re likely to hear the ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band wowed its Bay Area fans — perhaps for the last time ever in concert — on opening day of the 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco. Yes, the Long Beach ...

The yearly festival was founded in 2001 by local venture capitalist Warren Hellman, who used his vast fortune to keep the event free of charge and without any corporate sponsorship; he died in 2011, ...