Tony Trischka calls up Billy Strings and other top bluegrass talent for "Gentle On My Mind" from the upcoming Earl Scruggs tribute.

Held annually over Labor Day Weekend, the three-day celebration honors North Carolina banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, whose revolutionary three-finger picking style set the gold standard for bluegrass and ...

A statue of Earl Scruggs at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby. [email protected] Whatever you’ve accomplished in your life, chances are you didn’t make history at age 10. But Earl Scruggs, ...

Also a mandolinist, he performed alongside his brother, Jim, in an act that lasted 55 years. He continued performing after his brother’s death. By Bill Friskics-Warren The Earl Scruggs Center, which ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring, N.C., for its fourth annual event on August 29-31. Continuing tradition, the occasion will take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center.

The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will be closed for more than a month starting Thanksgiving day, our partners at The Shelby Star reported. ALSO READ: Music pioneer and Cleveland Co. native Earl ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It is impossible to overstate the importance of Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

The iconic banjo player, who played with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, developed a picking technique which defined the sound of bluegrass music.... Bluegrass Legend Earl Scruggs Has Died Banjo player ...

The Earl Scruggs Music Festival, held Labor Day weekend at the Tryon Equestrian Center southeast of Asheville, may hit the Goldilocks sweet spot in music festival size. It’s big enough to attract ...

Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs has died at the age of 88. Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Legend, Dies MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And finally, this hour, we remember Earl Scruggs, the master of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.