At Denver's Swallow Hill Banjo Fest on Saturday, the toe-tappin' rhythm, quick-pickin' chords and an unmistakable twang ...

“They seem like latecomers to me,” says Fleck, 58, who since 1973, when he was given his first banjo by his grandfather, has taken the five-stringed instrument to previously unimagined heights of ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

JAM WITH TONY TRISCHKA AND FRIENDS – The Oswego Music Hall welcomes Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam: a Tribute to Earl Scruggs to the stage on Saturday, April 12. Featuring Tony Trischka (pictured), Michael ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring, N.C., for its fourth annual event on August 29-31. Continuing tradition, the occasion will take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center.

Earl Scruggs became a household name in the early 1960s when he and Lester Flatt joined vocalist Jerry Scroggins in recording "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," becoming the theme song for the hit ...

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One of the country’s top Bluegrass musicians performs Saturday at the Franklin Park Arts Center paying tribute to a legend of the genre and one of his musical heroes, Earl Scruggs. Tony Trischka’s ...

In the centennial year of Earl Scruggs’ birth, the music festival held in Mill Spring bearing his name still has its new car smell. In only its third year, the Labor Day weekend festival is held 40 ...