OWENSBORO, Ky. -- The International Bluegrass Music Museum in this western Kentucky city 40 miles from Bill Monroe's birth and burial places is struggling financially like most nonprofit

Alison Krauss has graced the stage of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival many times ? presiding over Town Park with her beyond-lovely voice like some demigod of music.

The Naperville Bluegrass Music Festival returns this month, making hotel hallways ring with banjos and fiddles. In addition to round-the-clock jamming, the annual festival features a concert line-up of regional and national bluegrass favorites. Artists include Josh Williams, the 2009 International Bluegrass Music Association guitar player of the year, and Grammy-nominated Barry Scott and Second ...

Four bands that play bluegrass, old-timey, folk, and/or hillbilly music with an in-your-face attitude and a dark edge will make up a bill dubbed ? Old-Time Southern Murder Hour ,? to be held at Slim?s on Saturday, Mar. 20. Southern ?horrorbilly? band Pine Box Boys will headline the event, which will also include performances by ?outlaw bluegrass? outfit the Earl Brothers , The Last Men on Earth ...

Bluegrass lovers will be able to jam out to their favorite tunes at the Temecula Bluegrass Festival, held in Old Town on March 20 and 21.Fans are also musicians, some of them quite good and notable in the music world, stated Melody Brunsting, organizer of the event. Its the greatest part about a bluegrass festival.Headlining the festival is Gazette, a band with a long and rich history in the ...