The Earl Scruggs Center will host the 2026 Remembering Earl Concert on Saturday, April 18, at the Crest High School ...

Tony Trischka calls up Billy Strings and other top bluegrass talent for "Gentle On My Mind" from the upcoming Earl Scruggs tribute.

There’s no question that Tony Trischka stands as one of the most preeminent banjo artists of our time. For more than 50 years, his innovative style, dazzling speed, and musical ingenuity have shaped ...

We mark the 100th anniversary of The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s biggest stage, and feature interviews with two of its members. First up, bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs. He and guitarist ...

We listen back to archival interviews with two Opry members: bluegrass musician Scruggs, who perfected three-finger banjo picking, and country star Lynn. Originally broadcast in 2012 and 2010.

SHELBY, N.C. — The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will be closed for more than a month starting Thanksgiving day, our partners at The Shelby Star reported. ALSO READ: Music pioneer and Cleveland Co.

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

The Earl Scruggs Music Festival, held Labor Day weekend at the Tryon Equestrian Center southeast of Asheville, may hit the Goldilocks sweet spot in music festival size. It’s big enough to attract ...

Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz started performing together in 2009 in coffee shops and restaurants of Chapel Hill and other NC towns under the name Mandolin Orange. They now have their 2 nd album under ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring, N.C., for its fourth annual event on August 29-31. Continuing tradition, the occasion will take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center.

Fresh off a second Grammy nomination, banjo icon Tony Trischka will return to Brevard for a Feb. 20 performance at 185 King Street with his all-star band including Woody Platt. Trischka, “the father ...

Jesse is a multi-instrumentalist, but you may know him best from his fiddle playing with Tyler Childers and the Food Stamps. Often introduced on stage as Professor Jesse Wells, he's one of the ...