To some fans, country music was meant to be played one way—unfiltered, unplugged, and entirely acoustic. This is a purist school of thought, and one that mainly applies to bluegrass and folk music.

So you’re out with friends in the Great Outdoors on a crisp night full of stars with the fire blazing. Someone has brought an acoustic guitar along with them. What are you going to play? Well, chances ...

The artist’s path is an increasingly tangled one in the year 2025, but for guitarists, it’s not so complicated. While money and adulation are fine intentions, a true six stringer needs but one thing ...

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 ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Married musicians Tommy Norris and Noah Wall founded The Barefoot Movement, after first finding each other in high school. “I was playing classical guitar for a project and she ...

Fans of live, local music can enjoy the high-energy, acoustic sounds of the Tender Foot Bluegrass Band, free of charge, at the Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort on Friday. The boutique resort was ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When Karl and Jackie Dieterichs first opened their folk music shop in 1966, it wasn’t ...

Robb Cappelletto says the bluesgrass star was far from a novice when approached him, but still wanted to expand his knowledge ...

WAYNESBORO — When he was a kid, Rob Seal would spend two weeks every summer with his grandparents in Castlewood, a small town tucked in the southwest corner of Virginia. He hadn't grown up playing ...

Billy Strings returns to Rupp Arena June 20-21 for two sold-out shows. Strings blends traditional bluegrass with rock and jam band influences live. Young fans embrace bluegrass roots through Strings’ ...