Sixteen-year-old George Portz, left, became the youngest winner of a state open fiddle championship in 1969. He died Jan. 9 after more than 50 years playing bluegrass music. Provided George Portz was ...

That we find Jason Carter at home on an early January afternoon is something of an anomaly. The Greenup County-born fiddler is usually on the road as a charter member of two multi-Grammy winning, ...

Joanna Ridgway, managing director and head of the southwest region for Santander Bank, began playing classical violin at the age of 3. But after graduating from Rhodes College with a business ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like it or not, Durango has an active bluegrass-music scene. Live with it. While its popularity may bum some of the genre’s naysayers out, it’s arguably not any more fertile than the towns punk or EDM ...

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 ...

GREENBRIER -- One of Tim Trawick's earliest memories is of lying in bed and hearing his father, Kay Trawick, playing guitar in another part of the house. "He'd be practicing some Chet Atkins-style ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...