Boulder born and raised, 2019 RockyGrass champion mandolinist Dylan McCarthy made his way through a lot of styles before settling on becoming a master bluegrass picker. He started playing classical ...

In 2015, Jon Stickley brought in revered jazz drummer Dave King to produce his next bluegrass album. He didn’t bargain for the profound change ahead. Until that point, the Jon Stickley Trio mixed ...

Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...

Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

Tim O’Brien won song of the year and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder earned instrumental group of the year for the eighth straight time at the International Bluegrass Music Awards Thursday. O’Brien ...

That every one of these CDs comes from an independent label drives home the fact that bluegrass was an “alternative” music genre long before “alt” became a marketing niche. Even though the music’s ...

Bluegrass music’s big story of 2001 was the soundtrack to the Coen brothers’ movie — “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” — which brought many performers, and stylistic antecedents, of bluegrass to ...

Guitar virtuoso John Jorgenson — whose bluegrass band plays the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder on Jan. 14 — has a connection to Colorado that runs back almost a half century. Courtesy: John Jorgenson ...

First-time recipients and repeat winners were honored at the 29th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards in Raleigh, North Carolina, held Thursday night. Balsam Range, a five-piece band from ...