The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival, the nation's longest-running bluegrass festival, returns June 17-20 to Bill Monroe's ...

Wearing patchwork pants and an easy smile, Bluegrass Hall of Famer Peter Rowan tipped the blue hand-thrown pottery jug inscribed with his name to his lips as if he were taking a large swig of ...

Bassist Mark Hembree's On the Bus With Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass gives us the legendary Father of Bluegrass as we've come to know him: intimidating, sometimes ...

The stunning Tennessee estate that belonged to country music icon Bill Monroe is currently for sale, and the buyer will be getting a piece of history. Bluegrass Today reports that the pioneering ...

On this day (September 9) in 1966. Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, died in Springfield, Tennessee, just days before his birthday. Before his death, Monroe invented bluegrass, introduced the ...

Nearly a year ago, ahead of the arrival of the first edition of the IBMA World of Bluegrass extravaganza in Raleigh, I began searching for a direct, deep connection between the city and the storied ...

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 ...