The Avett Brothers, creators of the Broadway musical Swept Away, will headline the 2026 Earl Scruggs Music Festival alongside jamgrass ensemble Greensky Bluegrass, and Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart.

While "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" became a big hit, Scruggs’ wife and manager, Louise, almost put a stop to the project. Speaking with NPR in 2003, she recalled showrunner Paul Henning approaching ...

Del McCoury walked onto the stage at The Barns at Wolf Trap on January 21st and reminded everyone why he’s considered a national bluegrass treasure. This Classic Bluegrass concert was the final night ...

Bluegrass fans will have the chance to see The Hosmer Mountain Boys live at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, when the band performs at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford, according to a ...

Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country made the most of their second night at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville on Saturday with an all-star Christmas celebration for the history books. By the end of the action-packed ...

SHELBY, N.C. — The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will be closed for more than a month starting Thanksgiving day, our partners at The Shelby Star reported. ALSO READ: Music pioneer and Cleveland Co.

Attending a music festival at an equestrian center is full-body immersion into a world of sleek horse haute-Derby style meets thigh-slapping, plaid-shirted, down-home mountain music makers — a place ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

Lester "Les" Earl Goslar, 77, of Mapleton, Iowa, passed away peacefully at his beloved farmhouse on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, surrounded by the love of his family. A funeral service will be held at 11 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Albert Lee Band will perform for Rainshadow Concerts at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The concert will be in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S ...

Daniel Donato and his band Cosmic Country took Pelham, TN’s underground venue, The Caverns, by sheer musical force on Friday and Saturday for his Camp Cosmic mini-festival. The Nashville-based ...

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