Louise Rowe can still swing with the best of ’em, Western style. “I just kind of dance with it while I’m playing,” said Rowe, 82, who struts a stand-up bass with her band, the Texan Playboys. Six ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

At age 19, Isaac Rohrbach might be deemed a throwback to the days of old, and not just because he plays an oblong, octagonal upright bass that he made himself to perform in a bluegrass-gospel-country ...

WEST CALN — About 5,000 bluegrass, folk, Americana, and other types of music lovers met Saturday at Hibernia Park for the 96th annual Old Fiddler’s Picnic. The twang of standup bass, fiddle, guitars, ...