Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for ...

Arriving in Newburyport on Friday will be a well-traveled California musician who has ventured down rock and country roads, and over gypsy jazz and bluegrass paths. Along the way, John Jorgenson has ...

In “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Elise (Veerle Baetens) softly sings the bluegrass song “Wayfaring Stranger,” with its lyric about a bright land where “there’s no sickness, toil or danger”; her voice ...

Shreveport Little Theatre will continue its celebration of the new year with its Lagniappe production, Bluegrass Breakdown! The musical performance will feature The Blake Brothers Bluegrass Band, with ...

“The Broken Circle Breakdown” is a Belgian melodrama about bluegrass and love. Nominated for six European Film Awards, director Felix van Groeningen’s Flemish-language film tells the love story of a ...

The only version of the official video for Ricky Skaggs’ 1985 No. 1 country hit “Country Boy” available on YouTube is an imperfect transfer to digital from VHS, uploaded by a fan. Its subpar sound and ...

Today, bluegrass has a reputation as one of the most conservative genres of American roots music. A lily-white scene with few people of color, the surface of bluegrass today sometimes shows little ...

Ups and downs are constantly juxtaposed in "The Broken Circle Breakdown," a bluegrass-infused Flemish meller about two lovers who lose their little daughter to cancer. Inspired by a stage performance ...

If Richard D. Smith’s “Informal Guide” were about jazz, classical, rock or blues, it would probably warrant nothing more than a yawn and a shrug, so glutted is the music market with such books.

Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...