Flatt & Scruggs News

Shadow Ridge will team up with Monroe Fields for a performance at the Alabama Pecan Fest.

In memory of Louise Scruggs, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will present an in-depth interview honoring visionary music industry executive Mary Martin on Tuesday, November 17, at 6 p. m. in the Ford Theater.

Legacy Recordings, the world's foremost catalog music label, is continuing its on-going digital reissue initiative with a round of classic album titles, from a variety of genres, to be released for the first time in the online digital realm this fall.

Steve Martin is less known for playing with Earl Scruggs on a 2001 remake of Flatt & Scruggs' “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” than he is for, say, “King Tut,” but that isn't a slight.

Saturday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m., Mildred Owen Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural.

Phoenix-based Tangled Strings Bluegrass Band will kick off the Rec Centers' free Concert in the Park Series at 7 p.m. Oct.

September 18, 2009 - BLOCK: Ricky Skaggs, do you remember a time when you were not holding a string instrument in your hands? Mr.

The music I have played and enjoyed the most in the past three years is, of all things, a three-CD collection from Time Life titled "The Stanley Brothers: The Definitive Collection ." It is fundamental American music: rural bluegrass with a tapestry of strings beneath vocals seemingly made whole cloth out of the dirt, water, and foliage of the ...

WestEndEnt wrote: on Sep. 06, 2009: Bluegrass clearly runs in the McReynolds family.

Photo: Brad Bartlett and his wife, Estella Moore, both from Durango, Colo., rehearse for their show Saturday at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, during the 35th annual Santa Fe Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Festival.

BMNN wrote: on Aug. 25, 2009: Brooklyn, NY -- Each September, Park Slope becomes the focal point of American traditional music when the Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree, now in its 12th year, takes place.

BMNN wrote: on Aug. 25, 2009: Brooklyn, NY -- Each September, Park Slope becomes the focal point of American traditional music when the Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree, now in its 12th year, takes place.

There's arguably no song more essential in the history of country music than Hank Williams' 'Lovesick Blues.' In bluegrass, the same can be said of Flatt and Scruggs' 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown.' Williams and Flatt and Scuggs cut those songs 12 months apart, in 1948 and 1949, respectively, at the same recording studio.

Brad Wheeler Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 03:18PM EDT C hris Quinn, banjo player for the Toronto-based string band the Foggy Hogtown Boys, picks his three essential banjo-plucking bluegrass albums: Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall Quinn, like Steve Martin, was heavily influenced by the pioneering banjo player's banjo player.

ZUMBROTA The Bag O'Dirt Band will bring bluegrass music to Crossings at Carnegie for a concert at 8 p.m. Aug.

The Enumclaw Expo Centera s fieldhouse and stadium will explode with the sounds of bluegrass music Aug.

ZUMBROTA The Bag O'Dirt Band will bring bluegrass music to Crossings at Carnegie for a concert at 8 p.m. Aug.

World-class genre-jumping banjo player Bela Fleck will bring his newest musical collaboration to the Paramount Theatre Wednesday night.

Alecia Nugent has been called a "hillbilly goddess," and she slips into that term like Cinderella fits into her glass slipper.

Many famous bluegrass artists - including Bobby Osbourne - will perform Thursday during Augusta's Bluegrass Bonanza Concert.