It may be called Kentucky bluegrass, but the plant itself did not originate from the commonwealth — but the music did.

Bluegrass music, unlike the grass itself, is native to Kentucky. Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys provided a "high lonesome" sound often driven by the rhythm of a banjo, mandolin and fiddle.

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

State Road 135, Morgantown. Singer-songwriter Bill Monroe, remembered as the “Father of Bluegrass Music” began the festival in 1966. The Kentucky native died in 1996 at age 84.

Wayne Erbsen has been documenting bluegrass music for 50 years. When he arrived in the Swannanoa ... There are also shorter ...

where the Bill Monroe sound originated. "In order to understand the history of the banjo and the history of bluegrass music," she told those assembled, "we need to move beyond the narratives we've ...

Grammy-nominated mandolinist, singer and songwriter Sierra Hull talks about collaboration, musical development and touring with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.

"We were there to proselytize about his music and his culture and ... she went right for a subject that's sacrosanct in bluegrass circles: where the Bill Monroe sound originated.

You've won Best Mandolin Player six times at the International Bluegrass Music Awards ... whatever, playing Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs songs that I'd be jamming in Mexico with Dave Matthews.