The Earl Scruggs Music Festival returns this weekend for the second year to provide a multi-day celebration of the musician’s contributions and the rich musical culture of the region. Scruggs, dubbed ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On Saturday, January 6, 2024, a stellar lineup of bluegrass and country ...

The iconic North Carolina bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs would have turned 100 on Jan. 6. On Saturday, the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will host a special concert to honor his memory with the ...

Earl Scruggs was a modest man, soft-spoken, gentlemanly and friendly. But, oh, he was mighty. Just listen to his music. Earl Scruggs was a maestro whose baton was the banjo, a transcendent force of ...

What would have been Earl Scruggs’ 100th birthday is this Saturday (January 6). A star-studded lineup of country and bluegrass musicians will gather to celebrate a man who helped change the way ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound ...

Also a mandolinist, he performed alongside his brother, Jim, in an act that lasted 55 years. He continued performing after his brother’s death. By Bill Friskics-Warren The Earl Scruggs Center, which ...

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 ...