Ted Lehmann

This afternoon we started our trek north from Florida, heading into the blooming outdoor bluegrass season, which runs from April through October in most of the country. I've been writing this column for a year now, writing about all the festivals I've attended, without ever commenting

Genius has within it the seeds of its own destruction. Bill Monroe labored for years to find and develop a musical sound he heard in his head. He experimented throughout his sojourn in the industrial necklace around the Great Lakes with combinations of instruments, tempos, and musical structures, restlessly seeking

Sister Sadie, a five-member super band composed of premier performers from across the bluegrass spectrum, first came together as what looked like something of a lark for a “one-off” show at the Station Inn in Nashville. The Station Inn's history dates back to the mid-'70s, when

Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894: WILD E, W. Va., January 19. - John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and he died in 17 1/2 minutes.

This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the first multi-day bluegrass festival, held at Cantrell's horse farm in Fincastle, Virginia, on Labor Day weekend of 1965. For three days, bluegrass fans traipsed down from New York City, Washington, D.C., Buffalo, New York, Kentucky, further west and south

Earl Scruggs has long been lauded for the tone, taste, and timing of his banjo playing, and those same measures have been applied to bluegrass music as a whole. When bands exhibit strengths in developing and maintaining a tone, playing their music with exquisite taste, and carefully maintaining excellent timing,