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 ...

While the Beef, Beans and Bluegrass Festival places local agricultural industries at its forefront, there’s no denying its twin role in expanding local access to live bluegrass, ...

Norwegian 'Nordicana' collective Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra will release its new album HAYDE. on Adhyâropa Records, with ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- With his flowing white beard, cowboy boots, and down-home humor, Eldon Bryson, 82, plies his trade with easy grace at the Fiddle Shop. “I’m used to stuff being piled up,” he says on ...

At age 19, Isaac Rohrbach might be deemed a throwback to the days of old, and not just because he plays an oblong, octagonal upright bass that he made himself to perform in a bluegrass-gospel-country ...

Keeler also sings and plays guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and harmonica. Jim Pittman plays stand-up bass and sings with the band. He is known in the Inland Northwest bluegrass community for ...

For Conor Smith of Quincy, playing music has always been a passion, so when his wife took a job at UMass-Boston, it was an easy decision for the 35-year-old, classically trained violinist to leave a ...

Jay Anderson plays the mandolin in the Bluegrass Babes band during the Beef, Beans and Bluegrass Festival on August 22, 2026.

Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...