Earl Eugene Scruggs, the most influential and imitated five-string banjo player in the world, was born on a forty-acre cotton farm in the little Flint Hill community of Cleveland County on January 6, ...

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' ...

Wyatt Ellis, a rising mandolin phenom at just 14, made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry stage in 2023. The Knoxville native (who now lives with his family in Maryville) has continued making a splash in ...