During an annual event honoring their rich bluegrass heritage, Liberty Square: A Lester Flatt Celebration, the City of Sparta, Tennessee recognized the achievements of Josh Swift by inducting him into ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee Bluegrass Band will play at The Down Home in Johnson City on Friday. The band joined News Channel 11's First at 4 show to talk about how to see their ...

Their Sound: Acoustic music performed around one microphone, drawing on original material, traditional tunes and sometimes even a creative cover of the Blind Melon pop hit “No Rain.” Big Break: Noah ...

Traditional musician John Nyhan has created a local audience for bluegrass music at the Schoolyard Theatre in Charleville when he has brought a number of American Bluegrass bands to perform at the ...

GRANVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's a style of music that includes a stand-up bass, the banjo, the mandolin, the guitar, and the fiddle. It has been passed down for generations. Now, someone is taking ...

If Bill Monroe was the Father of Bluegrass, Lester Flatt is surely one of its disciples. Born on this day (June 19) in 1914 in Overton County, Tennessee, Flatt teamed up with banjo virtuoso Earl ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) —The East Tennessee Demijohns are the East Tennessee Bluegrass Association showcase band at Mountain Makins Festival. ETNBA’s goal is to promote and providing education about ...

Room 306 in Brooks Memorial Hall looks like a pretty standard college classroom, until you notice the acoustic enhancements. Look up and you’ll see canvas baffles hanging from the ceiling. And you ...

After several social media complaints about playing music in the Gallatin City Cemetery led event organizers to rethink Memorial Day weekend plans, officials decided to move the free bluegrass show ...

The U.S. state of Tennessee is home to some famous music venues. In the far west of the state, Beale Street in the heart of Memphis is renowned for its blues music. In Middle Tennessee there’s the ...

Tennessee is Talking is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

BLUEGRASS musician Bobby Osborne, best known for his song Rocky Top, has died. Osborne was part of the Osborne Brothers duo along with his sibling, Sonny. A cause of death was not immediately revealed ...