When Natalie Padilla was just a sprite playing with her friends, her mother, who was on stage playing bluegrass with her fiddle, spotted Natalie with two sticks, copying her mother. Natalie doesn’t ...

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 ...

"But we're fairly new to bluegrass." Their 15-year-old daughter, Micaiah, played violin off and on for years, but really got serious about violin and fiddle (same instrument, different styles) five ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rob Landes plays 'Old Town Road' and bluegrass on the violin for his horses, Stanley and Buttercup. Do they enjoy his ...

Randy Lanham, education director at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, and Parker Malone, one of his fiddle students, will be performing at the White House on Dec. 7. Lanham said they’ll be ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...