Bill Monroe's Estate Sale: The Stuff Of Bluegrass Legend The Father of Bluegrass died 20 years ago. ... Others throw down $10 for a mandolin pick with a certificate of authenticity.

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 ...

Skaggs said he hopes to write something to express those thoughts about Bill Monroe's mandolin. Please do Ricky. Whether a song, a poem or an essay, I can't wait to hear or read it.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Bill Monroe played the mandolin, but the banjo is the instrument that has come to define bluegrass music for many listeners. In fact, some peg the birth of bluegrass music to late 1945, when Earl ...