Mar. 21—When Ivy Phillips and her brother were home-schooled, her mother enrolled her in music lessons, and the power of music took hold. Phillips, who now teaches music full-time, made the drive from ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the age of four, Michael Cleveland has always wanted to play music. His grandparents took him to his first bluegrass shows as a young child and for him it was love at first note ...

Jubilantly playing her fiddle, 16-year-old Alani Sugar entertained library patrons with guitarist Greg Fury, of Olney. “I love that she’s so young and enthusiastic,” said Kathy Martin, of Eldersburg. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The O’Connor Band, featuring bluegrass fiddle legend Mark O’Connor at its helm, took home the Best Bluegrass Album Grammys trophy in 2017, for their album Coming Home. And with bluegrass music growing ...

"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 ...

On Jan. 9, explore the intersection of jazz and bluegrass music in the American Songbook — and maybe a Bruce Springsteen song ...

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