Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis pairs with Marty Stuart for the new music video "Blue Smoke." - Credit: Laci Mack* Wyatt Ellis is ...

Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at the age of 89. With his brother Ralph, Frank Wakefield ...

When lightning struck, Buddy Merriam listened. Merriam, 58, who lives in Sound Beach, has made a living as a bluegrass musician for the past 30 years - a career launched after lightning hit a neck ...

Last weekend’s snow and this week’s bitter cold have forced the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum to postpone the start ...

The Englert Theater welcomed duo Mandolin Orange Tuesday night, as well as opening act Kate Rhudy. They played out the evening with cool, ocean-wave folk vibes that echoed throughout the theater.

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It's been 60 years since Ricky Skaggs started playing his mandolin, and nearly a half-century since the bluegrass iconoclast performed his first show. Much like a professional athlete who has competed ...

Although 16-year-old Jordan Young grew up listening to bluegrass music, he was never a big fan. “I listened to it a little, but it wasn’t my favorite type of music,” the Independence High School ...

And to ensure the best odds that I eventually break free from the physical and emotional freeze, I tabbed my unstoppable ...

Traverse City mandolinist Don Julin has played with some of the country’s true bluegrass greats over the years, not to mention spending a couple of years touring with young bluegrass guitar phenom ...

Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the bluegrass world and appearing alongside some pillars of the genre — Bobby Osborne, Sierra Hull, Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, ...