NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A celebration of the life of fiddle and banjo enthusiast Earl Scruggs will be held this weekend at the Ryman Auditorium. More than a dozen artists are set to take the stage ...
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.
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' ...
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FILE – In this July 30, 2011 file photo, Earl Scruggs performs at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I. Scruggs’ son Gary said his father passed away Wednesday morning, March 28, 2012 at a ...
A slew of bluegrass and roots musicians will come together at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to celebrate Earl Scruggs’ 100th birthday on January 6. The special tribute concert will air live, one time ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Earl Scruggs was remembered Sunday as an influential, helpful and humble banjo player who put his own trademark on bluegrass music. Some 2,300 mourners attended Scruggs' public ...
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 ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Moments before Earl Scruggs' silver-colored casket was escorted from the historic home of the Grand Ole Opry Sunday, a video of Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain ...