KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program is beginning on May 23rd for children ages 9 and older. Students can learn bluegrass music in a group with their teacher, and ...

Growing up in Greensboro, N.C., Graham Sharp was in the heart of bluegrass music country, surrounded on all sides by legendary players. But somehow, he never crossed paths with bluegrass until a high ...

I've been excited to see the students' enthusiasm. Some of them call themselves 'closet' players, but now they're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the ...

Washington is closely associated with bluegrass and “old-time” music, as veteran listeners to WAMU or patrons of the Birchmere will tell you. But the city’s latest banjo export isn’t a reissue of, say ...