His updated version of an old-timey approach enhanced recordings by everyone from Bill Monroe to the Rolling Stones. By Bill Friskics-Warren Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who ...
Who is Indiana's greatest living musician? A pop fan might say Janet Jackson. A rock fan, maybe John Mellencamp or Axl Rose? Or, perhaps Bloomington's lauded classical violinist, Joshua Bell, is the ...
Mar. 11—Acoustic musicians are coming to Owensboro on Saturday from 12 states — as far away as Colorado — to compete in the 48th Official Kentucky State Fiddle Championship at the Bluegrass Music Hall ...
A Grammy-award-winning bluegrass fiddler is bringing his band to the Norwood Village Green concert series on Sunday. Michael Cleveland was born in Henryville, Indiana, and began playing music when he ...
Celebrated soprano Renée Fleming and Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck have announced The Fiddle and the Drum, a ...
Local favorites and up-and-coming national acts will perform in second-year of this festival. Here’s everything you need to know.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A local musician has been nominated for a Grammy. Michael Cleveland, a native of Henryville, Indiana, is nominated for Best Bluegrass Album for "Tall Fiddler," which was ...
For the past few years, just ahead of Kentucky Derby time, visitors arriving into Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport would be greeted by live bluegrass, a defining sound of the region ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the age of four, Michael Cleveland has always wanted to play music. His grandparents took him to his first bluegrass shows as a young child and for him it was love at first note ...
Like everyone else in her Pittsburgh family, Sue Cunningham was raised playing classical music. But Cunningham, who was trained on violin and played in orchestras from the age of 12, began to see the ...
Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia. Did Bill Monroe ...