When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival, the annual gathering which honors the namesake three-fingered banjo picker, has unveiled the official artist lineup for its fifth annual Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 4-6, 2026 ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival has delivered its artist lineup for the multi-day event at Tyron International Equestrian Center & Resort in Mill Spring, N.C. The upcoming occasion, which pays tribute to ...

All 104 seats at Unity Hall in Barneveld were taken for a concert by banjo player Tony Trischka. Trischka brought his "Earl ...

This fall, the second annual Earl Scruggs Music Festival will welcome some of the biggest names in folk, country, Americana and bluegrass. A full list of performers can be found below. General ...

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 ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring Aug. 30-Sept. 1. Organizers announced the 2024 lineup this week. Some of the performers will include “Delta Dawn'' hitmaker Tanya Tucker, seminal ...

For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marty Stuart and Chris Scruggs, the grandson of bluegrass great Earl Scruggs, perform at Earl Scruggs Music Festival. - Credit: ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.

Earl Scruggs, the North Carolina-born banjo legend who was a regular at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, died at a Nashville hospital this morning, according to news reports.

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 ...