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 ...

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...

In the centennial year of Earl Scruggs’ birth, the music festival held in Mill Spring bearing his name still has its new car smell. In only its third year, the Labor Day weekend festival is held 40 ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, "This one goes out to ...

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 ...

Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring Aug. 30-Sept. 1. Organizers announced the 2024 lineup this week. Some of the performers will include “Delta Dawn'' hitmaker Tanya Tucker, seminal ...

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 ...