When the news broke earlier this week informing us of Sonny Osborne’s passing, my mind raced back to when I first heard him and sibling Bobby – bluegrass music’s indomitable Osborne Brothers – on a ...

The banjo brought me to Kentucky. It all started in 2007. I was working as an intern at a library in Michigan performing baby storytimes with a local musician: Banjo Betsy Beckerman. Banjo Betsy ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky has lost a Bluegrass music legend. Renowned banjo player J.D. Crowe died early Thursday, according to a social media post by his son. He was 84. The Lexington, ...

GRAYSON, Ky. -- After losing money on years five and six of RudyFest, Tom Carper and the volunteers that run the bluegrass festival had to make a decision. "We figured we had to either bring in the ...

Ed Gallrein hosts watch party for Kentucky primary. What to know ...

The city of Pittsburgh has taken down a controversial statue of the storied American songwriter Stephen Foster that depicts the “father of American music” with a black man sitting at his feet, singing ...