For the past 21 years, the second weekend of January has meant one thing to western Pennsylvania bluegrass fans. It meant a pilgrimage to Butler for the annual January Ice Jam, where 25 bluegrass ...

Enjoy a weekend filled with Appalachian mountain music during The Winter Ramble. This inaugural three-day celebration rambles ...

Lee Zimmerman Correspondent for The Daily Times Sep 3, 2025 Sep 3, 2025 The band, which will be on the bill for the third and final concert in this year’s Songs by the Brook series Thursday, Sept. 4, ...

Many of the people who follow bluegrass festivals come not only to hear music played by professionals, but to enjoy picking tunes with fellow campers. 'We get to play music as well as listen to it," ...

Bluegrass music has never directly aligned with the general behavior of the mainstream country music scene. Never has it adapted for the sake of popularity and profit, and never has it bent or broken ...

On Wednesday nights in Millvale, the sound of banjos, fiddles and mandolins drifts across the patio outside Mr. Smalls Cafe. That’s where the Smallsgrass Bluegrass Jam has become a weekly tradition, ...

The next Dove Mountain Bluegrass Jam is scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Dove Mountain Center at West Tangerine Road and North Dove Mountain Boulevard. The jam is outdoors on the patio adjacent ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — After the explosive opening plucks of the song “I Ain’t” by Cole Quest and the City Pickers, listeners may be caught off guard that the first verse is about … eating your vegetables ...

Mt. Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, recalled listening to two women sing “Foggy River” as a man accompanied them on fiddle ...