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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spirit of Bill Monroe watches over the musical festivals at Brown County's Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground. Brown County'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 ...

Bill Monroe, known as the "Father of Bluegrass Music," was born 100 years ago this week in rural Kentucky. He influenced early country music and rock 'n' roll, as well as the hard-driving, ...

The 42nd Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival stretched from June 14-21, showcasing the best in bluegrass music on a Southern Indiana campground. It’s a tradition that draws annual ...

Bill Monroe transmuted childhood tragedy into an entirely new genre of music. The original singer of the popular Elvis Presley hit “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” Monroe blended “Scottish bagpipes and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 ...

Those who love to connect the dots of popular music history live for challenges like mapping out bluegrass legend Bill Monroe’s influence on the Beatles. In the new release of the long out-of-print ...