Bill Monroe, known as the "Father of Bluegrass Music," was born 100 years ago this week in rural Kentucky. He influenced early country music and rock 'n' roll, as well as the hard-driving, ...

May 9—Located at the end of the tree-lined Pen Lane, just east of Rosine, sits a traditional cabin that pays homage to famed fiddle player Pendleton "Uncle Pen" Vandiver, uncle of Rosine native and ...

Kentucky—known for being the home of horse racing, bourbon, and bluegrass. However, it is also home to some of the biggest names to have ever made it in country music. If one is familiar with the ...

Any musician would be happy to achieve success in one musical genre, but Ricky Skaggs has been twice blessed. Over the course of his career, the Kentucky native has been proclaimed the savior of ...

Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder closed the 30th year of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman on Thursday with some sing-along gospel songs and a whole lot of pickin’ and grinnin’. “To be able to ...

In January 1954, almost a year to the day after a devastating auto accident near White House, Tennessee, in which he suffered multiple injuries, bluegrass legend and Grand Ole Opry star Bill Monroe ...

To many, Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass. But listen to his Blue Grass Boys and you’ll hear echoes of the man who mentored Monroe — fiddler and guitarist Arnold Shultz, the son of a ...