Lee Pike, center, plays the fiddle during the Handsome Ladies all-women bluegrass jam at the Larry’s Coffee headquarters in Raleigh on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Lee Pike and her mother, Vickie Posey, ...

There are plenty of theories about why so few women played and sang bluegrass early on. Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann, in their tome Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000, point ...

When five first ladies take the stage at Red Hat Amphitheater on Friday, there won’t be a presidential motorcade in sight. Instead, you’ll see and hear the first women who have won their respective ...

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For all the progressivism that's inherent in musical creation, the fact remains that the music industry is largely a patriarchal structure. There are plenty of huge female acts, but the ...

A former Kentucky Wildcat secured her third Bluegrass 10,000 women's division win, while a current runner at the University of Dayton won the men's and overall titles in Lexington's annual Fourth of ...

The acclaimed First Ladies of Bluegrass—banjo player Alison Brown, fiddler Becky Buller, mandolinist Sierra Hull, bass player Missy Raines, and guitarist Molly Tuttle—bring a rare live performance to ...

Over the last several months the fans of bluegrass music had choices, serious choices, to enjoy top-tier talents playing their music of choice.

To be a respected citizen of the bluegrass world, no matter how far newgrass, jamgrass, folk-rock, pop, indie and classical offshoots push its boundaries, requires being able to play in a traditional ...

Six decades ago, the singer’s duo with Hazel Dickens revolutionized the genre. As their albums are reissued, she reflected on her unexpected life in folk music and what’s next. By Grayson Haver Currin ...