MerleFest 2025 wrapped with a roaring tribute to the music and community that folk icon Doc Watson championed throughout his ...

For many music lovers, as spring slowly makes its way up the mountain, April means the the annual MerleFest music festival.

On his first night in Cary, Billy Strings offered up multiple tributes to bluegrass forefather and North Carolina native Doc Watson.

MerleFest started in 1988 as a small festival to celebrate the life of Doc Watson's son, Merle, who died in a tractor ...

MerleFest wrapped up its 37th annual celebration with a romp-roaring tribute to the music and community that folk icon Doc ...

Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley ... was recently inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. He was also a mandolin and banjo player of note, a tireless folklorist and a promoter ...

You could listen to the sweet music of all manner of stringed instruments at MerleFest - or the sweet roar of stock cars at ...

Each of the three women was rolling with her own successful project — O'Donovan with Crooked Still, Watkins with Nickel Creek ...

A son of the Shenandoah Valley, John R. Miller has country alt style and the mind of a poet. One of the first-time MerleFest ...

Grammy Award-winning Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show will perform in Kalispell in October as part of their 2025 ...

MerleFest 2025 starts Thursday in Wilkesboro, bring the best of bluegrass and American folk music to North Carolina's foothills.

These country songs have fun arrangements and upbeat vocal deliveries that hide how dark the lyrics truly are.