Wednesday afternoon at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, notes from banjo, guitar and bass mingled with the sounds of water flowing in North St. Vrain Creek. The music, alongside hundreds of tents ...

At Berklee College of Music, a school founded as an incubator of jazz and steeped in the syntax of cool, the pluck of the banjo was once a sound disdained. The bluegrass instrument was considered the ...

The musicians who pick and flail at Old St. Raymond's Church are making history come alive just by being themselves. That's how Elizabeth Isles likes it. Isle's job, director of Dublin's Heritage ...

On the surface, there might seem to be a world of difference between jazz and bluegrass music. Jazz is predominantly urban and often deals with relatively complex structures, chords and key changes.