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Attending a music festival at an equestrian center is full-body immersion into a world of sleek horse haute-Derby style meets thigh-slapping, plaid-shirted, down-home mountain music makers — a place ...

Rob McCoury can sum up banjo legend Earl Scruggs in one simple, yet seismic sentence. “Banjo at its finest,” said McCoury, a lauded Grammy-winning banjoist for the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin’ ...

Thomas Wesley Scruggs, Jr., "Sonny", passed away peacefully on August 8, 2025. Sonny was a 1957 graduate of Christian Brothers High School and received both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of ...

The Earl Scruggs Music Festival, held Labor Day weekend at the Tryon Equestrian Center southeast of Asheville, may hit the Goldilocks sweet spot in music festival size. It’s big enough to attract ...

MILL SPRING, N.C. (WLOS) — The Earl Scruggs Music Festival has released its highly anticipated 2025 lineup for its fourth annual event in August. Among the headliners are Alison Krauss & Union Station ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival returns to Mill Spring, NC on August 29-31, 2025 for its 4th annual event at Tryon International Equestrian Center (Tryon International). Headlining this year’s lineup is ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring, N.C., for its fourth annual event on August 29-31. Continuing tradition, the occasion will take place at Tryon International Equestrian Center.

Earl Scruggs became a household name in the early 1960s when he and Lester Flatt joined vocalist Jerry Scroggins in recording "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," becoming the theme song for the hit ...

No Surprise That the Supreme Court Didn’t Take a Same-Sex Marriage-Related Case The Shutdown Stumbles Toward Its End Audio By Carbonatix The latest edition of my Music for a While is here. There is a ...

In an era when concert tickets can cost hundreds of dollars, there may be no greater gift to Bay Area music lovers than the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass free music festival in San Francisco’s ...

Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His ...