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David Arquette is going to live in a box in New York City to raise money for the hungry.

Robert Plant received a royal honor from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on Friday, putting the former Led Zeppelin front man one notch above his old band mate Jimmy Page.

For two years now, Alison Krauss has been touring and collecting armfuls of awards with a leonine rock god.

Cary Fridley was steeped in music as a child, studied music in graduate school, worked as a music teacher and played professionally in bands for more than a decade.

However, he recommends these must-see artists that showcase the diversity of the festival: BeauSoleil avec Michale Doucet, Cajun.

Acclaimed mandolin player Tony Williamson will put his considerable skills on display Friday when he plays a show with The Trio at downtown hotspot Bottega.

Rhonda Vincent Destination Life Rounder ESSENTIAL "Stop the World " Bluegrass queen Alison Krauss has been off playing with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, so fans of the genre will hopefully lend a closer ear to Rhonda Vincent, who has long been overshadowed by her illustrious counterpart.

Can't they just give Vince Gill his Kennedy Center Honors medal already?

If there's any justice in the arts world, then at some point, the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees should receive a short list with Gill's name on it. And the trustees should be compelled to decide that yes, of course Gill should be honored for his contributions to American culture, for he is one of contemporary music's most prodigious talents -- a quadruple-threat singer, songwriter, guitar-slinger and storyteller whose mastery of his craft is astonishing.

With less than a month to go, preparations are in full swing for the sixth annual Red, White and Bluegrass Festival.

Don't Turn Your Back , the latest release from Dale Ann Bradley , has already become one of my favorite releases of 2009.

Rock's most aggressive genre hopper lands in the cozy and calming world of acoustic folk and country instrumentation, with producer T Bone Burnett demonstrating there's more to mine in this vein than Robert and Alison Krauss tapped on "Raising Sand." By teaming Costello with a band dominated by fiddles, banjos, upright bass and rhythm guitar, ...

It's odd to think that female lead vocalists used to be a rarity in bluegrass music.

Alison Krauss helped bring bluegrass to a new audience in the '90s. Blending bluegrass with folk, Krauss was instantly acclaimed from the start of her career, but it wasn't until her platinum-selling 1995 compilation Now That I've Found You that she became a mainstream star.

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Sarah Siskind, then 17, sat with her parents at a concert in North Carolina. Genre-hopping instrumental virtuosos Sam Bush, Tim O'Brien and Jerry Douglas were onstage, melodies careening from their instruments.

Restless creativity can dissuade an artist from doing the same thing twice, and has aided in the creation of many of the most compelling albums of the last 50 years.

Dan Tyminski found his first guitar, a 1946 D28 Herringbone Martin, at the former Bass Mountain Music Festival in the early 1990s.

Renowned artists Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller will return to helm the 2009 Americana Honors & Awards show, scheduled for Thursday, September 17th at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Editor's note: CMT .com is commemorating Bluegrass Month with a series of feature stories on some of the genre's key players.

The 51st annual Grammys was an all-ages affair ultimately dominated by a rock legend who took up with a younger bluegrass singer on a whim.