On Sunday night (Oct. 21), Ricky Skaggs joined the Country Music Hall of Fame, as part of the organization's Class of 2018. His musical mentor, the "Father of Bluegrass," Bill Monroe, died more than ...

Bill Monroe holds up his 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin on Feb. 25, 1986, for the first time since it was damaged by vandals in November 1985. Scores of Gibson employees gathered at the firm’s plant on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 21—When speaking to country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, there are many things to talk about, but not enough time to ...

Garth Brooks inducts Ricky Skaggs into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but both get upstaged by Bill Monroe's mandolin when the priceless instrument is placed in Skaggs' hands to play Nancy Kruh is a ...

Ricky Skaggs started playing mandolin when he was just 5. Sixty-two years later – after his pile of Grammys, country and bluegrass hall of fame inductions and National Medal of Arts - I ask Skaggs how ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

On Sunday night, Ricky Skaggs, Dottie West and Johnny Gimble were welcomed as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at the 2018 Medallion Ceremony, held in the museum’s CMA ...

The Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe was born in 1911 and began making music when he was just 16 years old. For nearly 70 years, the singer, songwriter and mandolin player built and shaped what we ...