ALBANY >> Banjo player Peter Rowan was 21 and Bill Monroe was 50 when the Bluegrass Boys played the Grand Ole Opry in 1964. At 22, Peter left the Father of Bluegrass. His next gig was with Jerry ...

Peter Rowan has announced a new LP entitled Calling You From My Mountain set to release June 24 via Rebel Records. Along with the album announcement, Rowan shared the first single “The Song That Made ...

Grammy-award winner and six-time Grammy nominee, Peter Rowan is a bluegrass singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades. From his early years playing under the tutelage of bluegrass ...

Dark Star Jubilee will return to Legend Valley May 22nd–24th, 2026, with Dark Star Orchestra, Melvin Seals & JGB, and many ...

In our second installment of performances from Bill Monroe’s former home in Raleigh, we met with onetime Bluegrass Boy Peter Rowan. Rowan was a part of Monroe’s legendary backing group from 1964 until ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When Peter Rowan sings, “Amen, holy, hallelujah,” telling the tale of burying his father as snow ...

Last week, veteran guitarist Peter Rowan was sitting on a bench outside a café in western Marin County, Calif., speaking by phone with me about his years playing with Bill Monroe in the ’60s, the book ...

The four members of the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band recently joined Fresh Air for an in-studio performance, as well as a discussion of traditional and modern bluegrass music. Grammy-winning lead ...

The eclectic blend of bluegrass, blues, country, folk, jazz and rock music that forged the career of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, among numerous other 70s-era luminaries, will be celebrated by ...

MerleFest, the “traditional-plus” festival in Wilkesboro, entered its second year without its patriarch, Doc Watson, this year. Though organizers continue to push and uphold what Watson started, he ...

Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, possessed a notoriously proud and prickly personality on and off the bandstand. For Peter Rowan, who added a jolt of energy to Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys when he ...