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 ...

On this day (May 11) in 1979, Lester Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 64. Most remember him as half of Flatt & Scruggs, the foundational bluegrass duo. He and Earl ...

Bill Harrell grew up in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, but he didn't begin to play bluegrass music until he went away to college at the University of Maryland.

Up a long driveway through the woods of North Salem, N.Y., saxophonist Bill Evans relaxes on Halloween. Not expecting many trick-or-treaters this far into horse country, Evans talks about establishing ...