Dr. Ralph Edmond Stanley, age 89, passed away Thursday, June 23, 2016, at his residence. He was a lifelong resident of Dickenson County and was of the Primitive Baptist Faith. He was a 1945 graduate ...

The grass at Long's Park got a little bluer Sunday night when Dr. Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys rolled in to the amphitheater. Stanley and his five-piece bluegrass band came out to a ...

Dr. Ralph Stanley is one of the most famous names in bluegrass music, and the Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter will soon make his way to Central Virginia. Stanley’s upcoming show will give ...

BRISTOL, TN – There will be no tricks, only musical treats when Machiavelli’s stretches Halloween clear into November with a four-day music event that concludes with what could be the last chance to ...

My wife’s late mother, Margaret Whitt Freeman, grew up in rural southwest Virginia close to the Clinch Mountains, where the air is fresh, and the streams are clean. Margaret was one of 11 children ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.

The old line is fading away into the recesses of traditional American music fans memories. One by one the heroes who reformed bluegrass music in this country into vital and yet approachable styles are ...

Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys may have come first, playing that newfangled bluegrass music on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in 1946 in an ensemble that included soulful baritone Lester Flatt ...

Rolling Stone calls him "a master performer without an expiration date." Richmond.com calls him "our favorite Good Ole Boy." "I've become much stronger," chuckled Stanley during a recent interview ...