STANTON, Ky. — Her friends call it hillbilly music. They laugh. Ninth-grader Shelley Skidmore doesn’t care. She’ll sing “Blue Moon of Kentucky” if she wants. She’ll play “Boil Them Cabbage Down.” This ...

VAIL, Colorado – Cowboy Hillbilly Hippy Folk is bringing its blend of electrified Appalachian music to the top of Vail Mountain tonight. The Columbus, Ohio-based band will be playing Friday Afternoon ...

“Chicago is a country music town,” insists sculptor Rob Lentz in his artist’s statement at the Chicago Cultural Center exhibit “The Rise & Fall of the National Barn Dance.” You wouldn’t think this was ...

South Florida isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of country music. One local musician is sure he can change that. After all, with a nickname like the “Hialeah Hillbilly,” how can he lose? Ricky Valido, ...

Ralph Stanley, now 82, has been singing and playing professionally since the '40s, but the music he performs now is not radically different from what he grew up playing and singing with his brother, ...

MOUNTAIN REST — Anyone is welcome to the annual Fourth of July celebration in Mountain Rest, South Carolina, but make no mistake: this is a homecoming. Upwards of 10,000 people drive to the Blue Ridge ...