Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last weekend’s snow and this week’s bitter cold have forced the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum to postpone the start of its ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

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A renowned bluegrass musician who calls Springfield home has received international recognition. Springfield resident Alan Munde, a bluegrass musician who specializes in the banjo, was recently ...

PUTNEY — It was 49 years ago that the Green Mountain Boys, from Putney, stepped into position to play music for a crowd of 800 people attending a banjo contest in Craftsbury Common. The boys were at ...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Judy Banfield had lost contact with childhood friend Pete Wernick until she saw him at a summer reunion last year. Yes, she knew Wernick became a ...