Bluegrass (genre)

There is a budding star in Jessamine County shining out like the blue moon of Kentucky but not yet big enough to fill out a pair of size-6 cowboy boots. The peewee performer's name is Jonathan Scott Rader Wilson of High Brdige, and at only 7 years old he...

Country music stars are nothing new at the Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival’s Sunday night concert at Lykins Park. Well known entertainers like Sugarland and Keith Urban have performed in the past, and this year’s headliner, Hunter Hayes,...

Earl Scruggs died last week and though not a Kentucky boy, his banjo playing was so elemental to what we now know as bluegrass that it defines our indigenous music. There is much more that defined the man, but most important is the hard picking banjo...

April 11, 1987 The music ranges from bluegrass to rock during the annual Winchester Lions Club Show tonight at Conkwright Junior High School. Members of Homer Ledford and the Cabin Creek Band Damon Crawford, L.C. Johnson, Rollie Carpenter, Freddie and...

Holiday services and events Salt River Baptist Church, Perryville Road — holiday schedule: Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday School; 11 a.m., worship; and 7 p.m., Christmas cantata "A Song in the Air" Wednesday: 7 p.m., candlelight service Dec. 25: 11 a.m.,...

Two duos looking to go in new directions came together a few years ago to form Dix River Crossing, which will perform Saturday at the Constitution Square Arts Fest, then at the Stanford Bluegrass Festival.The band, which formed in September 2009,...

Darrin Vincent doesn't remember a time when he wasn't performing music. He was 2 years old, singing onstage as well as on radio and television with his parents and sister Rhonda. It's just what he did growing up, Vincent said. It's also what Jamie Dailey,...

PERRYVILLE — All day Saturday Perryville’s Merchant Row was the scene of an open house party aptly called the, “Red, White and Bluegrass Festival.”  Three bands participated in the event including Cuzin Earl, Dix River Crossings...

Wednesday’s Lunch with the Arts series continues at Centre College this week featuring Centre College’s popular Kentucky Music Ensemble, who will perform music from three traditional genres — ballads, old-time music and bluegrass, as...

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The Rock Fence concerts — a series of five free outdoor concerts at Rock Fence Park — will hold its first concert May 21 beginning at 7:30 p.m. This year’s event is presented by Kentucky Bank. The series was scheduled to begin May 7,...

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