Earl Scruggs Music Festival, the annual gathering which honors the namesake three-fingered banjo picker, has unveiled the ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to North Carolina over Labor Day weekend 2026 for its annual celebration of the banjo trailblazer.

The Earl Scruggs Music Festival has released its highly anticipated 2026 lineup for a three-day weekend of bluegrass and Americana music this fall.

The Avett Brothers, creators of the Broadway musical Swept Away, will headline the 2026 Earl Scruggs Music Festival alongside jamgrass ensemble Greensky Bluegrass, and Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CoraWagoner_Bonnaroo2023 - Credit: Cora Wagoner* When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks ...

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 ...