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 ...

For more than 60 years, Dan Lindner, better known as “Banjo Dan,” has been a fixture of Vermont’s bluegrass scene.

On Friday, Sept. 18, audiences packed into the Hodgson Concert Hall at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

Southeastern Gathering 2026 returns for its third year, expanding to six days of bluegrass,  Irish and old-time music with players from Thailand, the US, Japan ...

Drawing on rock and R&B, Mr. Crowe recast the sound of bluegrass while helping launch the careers of some of the genre’s biggest stars. By Bill Friskics-Warren J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and ...