Bruce Elseth just finished singing in a church cantata, and he's ready for a change of pace. "I need to get back to bluegrass music," the guitarist from Newfolden, Minn., said. Farther around the ...

NEW SOUND: Mountain Cross (from left) includes George Rau on fiddle, Ken Kilgore on dobro, Nathan Miller on stand-up bass, Terry Miller on banjo, Jon Clement on mandolin, and Gene Nelson on guitar.

To the casual listener, old-time and bluegrass might be hard to tell apart. Both genres of music predominantly feature ...

It’s always news when “Banjo Dan” Lindner, Vermont’s dean of bluegrass, issues a new CD, even more so when it is to be his last. And appropriately, “Spirits” celebrates spirituality. “This is a ...

That’s a main rule of the Old Time Country Bluegrass Gospel Music Association, founded by Wayne and Cathy Agnew, who are preserving these unique musical styles performed before electric and percussion ...

Little James LaRue pined after his granddad’s banjo. One day, while his grandfather was out, LaRue went up to the attic of their Coatesville home. He carefully took out the banjo and plucked the ...

AUBURNDALE -- Floyd Walker has been waiting to bring bluegrass gospel band Never Fade to his church ever since the fledgling church was founded in Auburndale a year ago. But the band's schedule was ...