Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...
For the past few years, just ahead of Kentucky Derby time, visitors arriving into Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport would be greeted by live bluegrass, a defining sound of the region ...
Joanna Ridgway, managing director and head of the southwest region for Santander Bank, began playing classical violin at the age of 3. But after graduating from Rhodes College with a business ...
Telluride Bluegrass is one of just a few places that soprano singer Renée Fleming and banjo player Béla Fleck will perform ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the age of four, Michael Cleveland has always wanted to play music. His grandparents took him to his first bluegrass shows as a young child and for him it was love at first note ...
Who is Indiana's greatest living musician? A pop fan might say Janet Jackson. A rock fan, maybe John Mellencamp or Axl Rose? Or, perhaps Bloomington's lauded classical violinist, Joshua Bell, is the ...
A few weeks ago, I saw a Facebook event posting for an “electric violinist.” Now there’s a listing you don’t see every day when looking for “live music” in Hendersonville. Granted, sometimes I see ...
CAMP ZAMA, Japan (July 19, 2019) -- When Akiyasu Sumi first asked an American friend about going to a bluegrass festival in the United States, the man cautioned him against it, saying the festivals ...