On Sept. 30, local KSON radio show host Wayne Rice was presented a distinguished achievement award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. In a quirk of fate, two weeks prior to the ...

The new single ticks all the boxes for a bluegrass favorite, including a flashy twin banjo solo from Brown and Martin, lyrics that reflect Martin's wry sense of humor and top-flight performances from ...

Six years ago, Rob McClure and his father founded the Power Foundation with a few small FM and AM radio stations around the country. The goal, McClure said, was to offer gospel and other inspirational ...

When a Washington, D.C.-area radio station owner switched from playing bluegrass music to Russian-sponsored news and opinion last summer, he didn’t expect the U.S. Department of Justice to treat him ...

When Billy Blue Records released “Let Time Ride” on March 17, it ushered in a new chapter for Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers. The award-winning bluegrass group based in the Miami Valley will ...

This Labor Day weekend, a few close friends and I did something a little crazy. We started our own bluegrass festival. We had never run a festival before. There was no corporate producer. Just a ...

MIDDLETOWN — Miami University Regionals Appalachian Studies and Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers will celebrate the launch of “Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy,” ...

Bluegrass veteran Del McCoury won his ninth entertainer of the year award at the 15th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards last night (Oct. 7) at the Kentucky Center in Louisville. By Billboard ...

In nontraditional fashion, Kathy Kallick has been helping to keep traditional bluegrass music alive and well. Oakland resident Kallick came from Illinois, not Kentucky. And she started out as a folkie ...

The promise of precious metals and fertile land lured Wickenburg's first ranchers, farmers and miners to the northern edge of the Sonoran Desert in the 1860s. More than 150 years later, the historical ...

Dick Spottswood tried playing bluegrass on a banjo when he was a teenager, more than half a century ago. It didn’t go well, he admits. “I had a banjo and a guitar,” Spottswood says. “But I couldn’t ...