"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains ...

"The Chicken Reel" - Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, at his home in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, 1995. Credit: Marty Stuart, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The idea for this feature on the Country Music ...

Through the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music, Ellis had a two-year apprenticeship ... him into bluegrass - Bobby Osborne and Bill Monroe." At that time, Lewandowski was in the ...

On Thursday evening, backstage in a dressing room at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, Peter Rowan is plucking his guitar and ...

the "Father of Bluegrass," mandolinist Bill Monroe, first introduced his new sound live on WWNC radio during the "Mountain ...

Tonight, April 4, Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years, a two-hour music-fueled ... a video of bluegrass torchbearers Billy Strings and Sierra Hull covering Bill Monroe’s associated classic ...

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

As a young boy, he met bluegrass icon Bill Monroe, signing autographs after a ... a reference to the “hat acts” dominating country music at the time. Since 2002, Stuart has recorded and ...

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.

This past October, the newly renovated International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened to the public in western Kentucky’s Owensboro, less than an hour’s drive from Bill Monroe ...