Bill Monroe News

Over the past decade, the music business has seen the rise and fall of everything from teen pop to electronica and retro soul.

With 10 years of performances at roadhouses, clubs and festivals around the country under its belt, bluegrass band Jackstraw is a Northwest mainstay.

The world's fastest banjo player may also be one of the most generous. Johnny Butten, credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest banjo player, performed recently in Bean Blossom, Ind., at the Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival.

In 1968, a young Texas-born musician named David Holt took his banjo and traveled to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.

Announcement : David Davis and The Warrior River Boys: an Alabama Family Tradition BMNN wrote: on Jun.

They are the two-by-fours that make up country music's earliest construction, rootsy legends whose very names conjure never-faded invention and old-timey amusements.

Many visitors to Brown County will enjoy the 43rd Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival until Saturday.

VICTORVILLE His dad bought him a mandolin when he was 5 years old. Within weeks, Ricky Skaggs could strum a mean bluegrass tune.

Music in my boyhood home remained pretty standard fare - hymns, old-timey ballads, Country & Western hits of the day, gospel, bluegrass, and Tin Pan Alley songs as performed on The Hit Parade .

The eight-day Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival opens Saturday and seems destined to close on a high note.

Bob_Cherry wrote: on Jun. 13, 2009: The battle rages on for maintaining country music's most cherished instruments at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum .

Cadillac Sky Whether you are a bluegrass fan or not, Cadillac Sky is widely considered to be one of the most whimsically innovative bands on that highly active musical circuit.

Karen Cannon has painted a new tribute to our beloved Father. The painting is titled Salute! , and honors both Bill Monroe and the mandolin he used to create the bluegrass music we know and love.

Del McCoury, the most unlikely Bonnaroo star, has spent 50 of his 70 years playing music, though by necessity the music has often shared time with day jobs: pouring concrete, logging and the like.

The Forget-Me-Nots are Willa Finck, Ledah Finck and Maura Shawn Scanlin, accompanied by David Finck on guitar.

I wouldn't doubt that Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel music are two of the most popular genres of music in Johnson County and the surrounding area - perhaps in other parts of the state and country as well.

A spider web is a natural paradox. It's stronger than steel, relative to its size, and yet it's more elastic.

It's possible to sort the summer concert calendar by various genres and listener tastes.

While many bluegrass traditionalists still worship at the altar of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and even Ricky Skaggs - and rightfully so - there's a new type of 'grass taking root.

East Tennessee-based quintet Wolf Creek will bring their eclectic blend of electric bluegrass, alt.