PITTSFIELD -- A bluegrass band is coming to The Colonial soon, but it's not the type of band you might see at Mass MoCA's Fresh Grass. Although banjo specialist Noam Pikelny played at Fresh Grass last ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, four string virtuosos — Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin — are coming back together for the ...

When Stuart Duncan decided to get serious about music, he wanted an instrument that would provide ample sonic sustain – unlike his father’s banjo or the acoustic guitar his mother strummed. Duncan had ...

The Goat Rodeo Sessions is the perhaps not-so-unlikely collaboration between mandolinist Chris Thile, bassist Edgar Meyer, fiddle player Stuart Duncan and ubiquitous cellist Yo-Yo Ma. These four ...

Stuart Duncan and Noam Pikelny describe their music as "genre-proof," which is a lot easier to say than "innovative bluegrass/old-time/blues/folk/swing/jazz ...