Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

Theater of the Apes to present The Wayfaring Strangers, a wholly improvised bluegrass musical featuring brand new lyrics to old-timey bluegrass standards, played by a rotating cast on traditional ...

Most music festivals on Long Island choose to focus on rock, jam bands, blues or country. But there’s only one that spotlights bluegrass, the music genre that mixes acoustic instruments with ...

Mt. Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, recalled listening to two women sing “Foggy River” as a man accompanied them on fiddle ...