Bill Monroe

Gayle Anderson featured the following events in this week's edition of Gayle on the Go! Saturday Star Wars Day at the Los Angeles Zoo 5333 Zoo Drive Los Angeles (323) 644-4200 www.lazoo.org Saturday the Los Angeles Zoo will take you to a galazy far,...

With the late summer sun filtering through the Spanish moss hanging from decades-old oak trees surrounding a historic one-room schoolhouse, now the Cassia Community Club, the sounds of Bill Monroe's Lonesome Road Blues floated through the air from the...

Mandolinist-guitarist-vocalist Roland White’s performance Tuesday night at Viva Cantina not only marks a homecoming for the onetime Burbank resident, but also a rare local opportunity to see a performer whose experience in traditional and...

Jessica Lea Mayfield has packed a lot of living into her 22 years. Though the sprightly singer/songwriter may only be a year past the legal drinking age, she's already released two albums and had one notable collaboration. As a child, Mayfield toured...

So it's time to count your blessings on Thanksgiving. Yeah, it's been a strange year, but it's essential to remember the good stuff because that's what makes the rest worthwhile, right? So feel free to make yourself a turkey sandwich and munch along...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The Corbett administration approved a $3 million grant this summer to The Second Mile, the charity founded by accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, despite knowing about the investigation into the former Penn State...

Ricky Skaggs plays wonderful traditional bluegrass music – blindingly fast mandolin enveloped in other instrumentation that captures the very air of Appalachia and accounts for six of the eight Grammy Awards he’s won since 2000. Skaggs and his...

Bill Monroe Host of NBC's 'Meet the Press' Bill Monroe, 90, who hosted the long-running Washington political television show "Meet the Press" for nearly a decade, died Thursday at a Washington-area nursing home. Monroe was the NBC show's fourth...

Could it really be that in this age of pop music, often built on calculation and manipulation, that there’s still a place for bona-fide innocence? There is, at least in the parallel musical universe that producer T Bone Burnett is......

This Sunday, Steve Martin headlines the final night of the Bluegrass Situation, a four-night festival curated by fellow actor and fellow banjo enthusiast Ed Helms. If it’s anything like the concert Martin did at the same festival last year, you........

Vocal harmony has played a crucial role in country music dating back to those wondrous vocal blends of the Carter Family in the ' 20s and even earlier, and Stagecoach audiences were exposed to an invigorating variety of ways to......

Stagecoach got a strong dose of roots country early Sunday across all three stages. The Harters, an unassumingly charming family trio from Phoenix that opened the Mane Stage lineup, used tight sibling harmonies on originals that showed their desire to.......