WINONA, Minn. — Boats and Bluegrass Festival is a beloved tradition for 3,000 fans of music and recreation on the Mississippi ...

Multiple acts channeled the late Dolly Parton by covering her songs at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival over the weekend, while festivalgoers honored her through their outfits.

The banjo keeps rolling along in 16th notes, the mandolin cuts sharply into the rhythm, and yet, there are no drums anywhere.

The Alabama band dropped their album Appalachian Smoke, turned in buzzy performances at Telluride and Under the Big Sky, and even backed up Shania Twain ...

Moorefields board chair Pam Hemminger joins Aaron to discuss this year's Moorefields Bluegrass Festival this Saturday, ...

Bill Monroe, the founding father of bluegrass music, died on September 9, 1996, just four days shy of his 85th birthday.

SFGATE staff photographer Douglas Zimmerman captured all the action.

The bluegrass band of Dominicans commanded the Washington Hall Mainstage Theatre as the finale for the de Nicola Center for ...

Dolly Parton’s contribution to a new book spotlights the overlooked album of traditional songs recorded by her mother, Avie ...

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Parton’s backing band is the First Ladies of Bluegrass, an acoustic supergroup that includes Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle, ...

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