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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, the instrument on which a new American musical genre was created, is going to Monroe’s birthplace in Kentucky as a million-dollar mandolin. A newly ...

It was late in Bill Monroe's career — May 21, 1989, ... "Give me a call if you ever need a mandolin player in the Mountain Stage band," he told host Larry Groce.

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 ...

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 ...

The Kentucky property where Bill Monroe laid the foundation for bluegrass music, the genre he pioneered, is for sale. By the time he was 16, Monroe had lost both of his parents. His uncle ...

The Bill Monroe Estate Sale will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1572 Long Hollow Pike in Gallatin. ...

According to Richard Smith's 2001 Monroe biography Can't You Hear Me Calling, Mauldin noticed there was a vehicle coming towards them, and told Monroe, "Bill, he's coming into our lane, get over ...