My favorite family heirloom is a bowl-back mandolin made by Lyon and Healy of Chicago. Its graceful curves and decorations inlaid in alternating wood strips sat atop my mother’s piano all through my ...

The favored mandolin of Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music, was sold this week for more than one million dollars. The instrument's new home is The Bill Monroe Foundation, based in Monroe's ...

Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin at a barber shop in Florida in the 1940s. But Jerry ...

Skaggs related how he came to play Monroe's mandolin for the first time when only 6 years old back in Skaggs' hometown in Kentucky. "My dad had bought me a mandolin the year before when I was 5 ...

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 ...

Bill Monroe's battered and scarred mandolin, on which a new American musical genre was created, is going to the late artist's birthplace in Kentucky as a million-dollar musical instrument.

ROSINE, Ky. -- During the half-century that bluegrass master Bill Monroe wielded his mandolin, it was run over by a car, drenched with rain and beaten to pieces by a vandal. Yet through it all ...

And the museum features photos from the festival’s earliest days, the stage clothes of pretty much every country star you can think of, and the case in which Bill Monroe carried his legendary mandolin ...

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys first recorded "Blue Moon of Kentucky" in 1946 as a slow country waltz. Along with Monroe on mandolin and lead and tenor vocals, the Blue Grass Boys of this ...

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 ...