Vernon native Nick Piccininni, mandolinist for CO-based bluegrass group, Yonder Mountain String Band, plays Stanley Theatre ...

Frigid temperatures and residual snow from Winter Storm Fern couldn’t stop musicians from across the country from attending Saturday’s Open Jam session at downtown Owensboro’s Bluegrass Music Hall of ...

Registration is now underway for the Spring semester of Boone Junior Appalachian Musicians (Boone JAM), a traditional music ...

Gary Walters, Peter Hansen, and a String Quartet with violinists Sophia Cho, violist Zhanbo Zheng and cellist Stephen Hawkey, ...

The Diversity star, 32, who is best known for winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent with his dance group, showed off his ripped muscles as he posed in the gym with his trainer. But prior to ...

The Share America Foundation, Inc. announced its third 2025 Pearl and Floyd Franks Scholarship winner in LaFayette, Ga. The scholarship honors students excelling in the Appalachian musical arts. Pearl ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

Last night, April 11, Billy Strings touched down in Savannah, Ga. for the third stop on his eagerly anticipated 2025 Spring Tour. Wrapping up a week on the road that brought four exceptional ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When Karl and Jackie Dieterichs first opened their folk music shop in 1966, it wasn’t ...