Bill Monroe’s Music Park & Campground in Brown County hosts the 60th edition of Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festival, considered the ultimate venue for live performances of the country music style, June ...

Wearing patchwork pants and an easy smile, Bluegrass Hall of Famer Peter Rowan tipped the blue hand-thrown pottery jug inscribed with his name to his lips as if he were taking a large swig of ...

Bill Monroe transmuted childhood tragedy into an entirely new genre of music. The original singer of the popular Elvis Presley hit “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” Monroe blended “Scottish bagpipes and ...

Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains was the birthplace of Bluegrass Music and Bill Monroe who became the Godfather of the Bluegrass. Untold is a free collection of short, compelling, history videos and ...

There’s a sour note in the legacy of bluegrass music legend Bill Monroe, as the man who runs an annual festival in Monroe’s honor is locked in a legal battle with the county over who gets to use ...

Monroe Crossing, a popular bluegrass band named in honor of Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music," will perform Saturday evening at Abounding Grace Sanctuary, 2450 S. Kolb, just north of East ...

Rinzler Fieldwork: Stanley Brothers at the New River Ranch, 9/7/58 (with Pete Roberts); ; Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys (Monroe with Jack Cooke, Joe Stuart, Bessie Lee Mauldin, Kenny Baker) ...

An official in western Kentucky says construction is expected to begin next spring on a bluegrass museum featuring memorabilia from Bill Monroe. Ohio County Judge ...

Features performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, John Hartford and a ...

Like it or not, Durango has an active bluegrass-music scene. Live with it. While its popularity may bum some of the genre’s naysayers out, it’s arguably not any more fertile than the towns punk or EDM ...

There's a sour note in the legacy of bluegrass music legend Bill Monroe, as the man who runs an annual festival in Monroe's honor is locked in a legal battle with the county over who gets to use ...

Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 101 Cabin in Glory Land / Bill Monroe, Joe Stuart, Kenny Baker.