After 42 years building and repairing hundreds of stringed instruments, Mark Bluett is retiring and passing his business on ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

MANSFIELD – Melanie Rodgers, 70, started playing the violin in the Mansfield Symphony during her time as a student at Mansfield Senior High School. Rodgers, who now plays the fiddle with the ...

Bluegrass, which sounds as old as the hills, actually was invented in the 1940s by Monroe, Scruggs, Flatt, Chubby and a handful of other Southern boys. They played acoustic string instruments (fiddle, ...

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis' coming season will deliver the classical masterpieces audiences have come to expect. But across the fall of 2025 and first half of 2026, several ...

There’s never been a better time to be young and rootsy. Today’s new crop of bluegrass and string-band musicians is younger and more accomplished than any batch of musicians since the teenage days of ...

The others were Frank Law of Elverson, who brought his guitar; Ken Cox of Bowmansville with a mandolin; an eager Bob Clifford of Sinking Spring with a voice for singing; plus Larry Swanson of ...

MIDDLETOWN — The Buttonwood Tree performing arts center will be hosting two concerts this weekend, featuring a California-based violinist, and bluegrass band from Plainfield. For 25 years, Murphy has ...

From a young age, Michael Cleveland knew he was meant to play the fiddle. Cleveland has received numerous awards for his fiddle playing and, with his band Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, won the ...

The third annual bluegrass festival and fiddle championship will be Jan. 16 through 19 at the Desert Inn in Yeehaw Junction, U.S. Highway 441 and State Road 60. Entertainment includes top bluegrass ...

Like everyone else in her Pittsburgh family, Sue Cunningham was raised playing classical music. But Cunningham, who was trained on violin and played in orchestras from the age of 12, began to see the ...