Acoustic artists gathered at the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday to pay tribute to Old & In the Way, an influential group of ...

Let’s get a couple of things said right up front. Bill Monroe invented bluegrass music. He didn’t invent mountain or ...

"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains ...

Bluegrass and country music legend Ricky Skaggs plays Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Sunday with Kentucky Thunder.

The Kentucky-born Bill Monroe, often called the Father of Bluegrass, first popularized the music in the 1940s. His Blue Grass Boys band originally featured Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs ...

He cites the "sass, speed and accuracy" of how Monroe's then newly constructed band played folk music ... with bluegrass picking and solos inspired by Dr. Ralph Stanley and Bill Monore." ...