Ricky Skaggs is known as a country music trailblazer for integrating the niche nature of bluegrass into the mainstream country music scene. On Tuesday (July 18), he celebrated this triumphant feat and ...

Ryman Auditorium has announced its 2026 Bluegrass Nights lineup, featuring Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Dailey & Vincent, ...

It must be interesting to be Ricky Skaggs these days. The multi-Grammy-winning mainstream country-turned-bluegrass virtuoso is once again awash in awards and praise, most recently for his latest album ...

On his new album, The High Notes, musician Ricky Skaggs plays bluegrass renditions of his own country hits. Skaggs started performing as a young child and was considered a musical prodigy. His first ...

Having achieved a combined 55 years in both bluegrass and country music, 15-time Grammy-winner and Country Music Hall of Famer Ricky Skaggs speaks with The Tennessean about his forthcoming Christmas ...

As he engages in internal ciphering to determine the elapsed time since his career switched from the traditionally minded country music he took to the top of the charts during the ’80s back to the ...

Ricky Skaggs is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and the Musicians Hall of Fame. In other words, the 70-year-old ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Fifteen-time GRAMMY winner Ricky Skaggs is set to bring his Christmas tour to the Brown County Music Center in Nashville, Indiana, on December 11, 2025. The show will feature ...

You couldn’t call it a homecoming in the traditional sense, but Ricky Skaggs should feel right at home during his upcoming concert in Springfield. The musician, singer and songwriter, who has had ...

For 13 years Ricky Skaggs has enjoyed a roots renaissance, making albums of breakneck bluegrass and lovingly assembled gospel music, hand-played on acoustic instruments with some of the best pickers ...

Ricky Skaggs says he's cool with bluegrass popping up in all sorts of music, whether it's rock 'n' roll, new country or even punk rock. "Hey, if we can get a banjo, a fiddle and a mandolin together, ...

In 1960 in rural Kentucky, a traveling welder purchased a $5 mandolin from a pawn shop for his five-year-old son, a bright-eyed boy who listened to WSM every Saturday night and dreamed of playing the ...