Isaac Woodward along with his dad Kekoa Woodward (of the group Walea) are bridging the generation gap with traditional Hawaiian music and the lilting sounds of the kika kila or ...

Emmylou Harris and Graham Nash captivated at the Koussevitzky Music Shed Tuesday night, bringing sets jam-packed with stories ...

The name Jackson Scribner is synonymous with precociousness—among Americana tastemakers and indie folk listeners alike. The ...

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Hickman has played the pedal steel guitar since he was 5 years old. Now, he is preparing to play with Steve Ray Ladson from South Carolina in a four-person band.

There is usually nothing out of the ordinary about watching musicians setting up instruments on stage. But with Susan Alcorn, it was different – when combining all of the elements of the pedal steel ...

Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons of the instrument beyond country, Hawaiian music, and traditional folk ...

That quest led him to set up his pedal steel guitar and make a recording down in an intercontinental ballistic missile base near Wilson, Kansas, built to withstand a direct hit from a nuclear weapon.

Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter-continental ballistic missile silo to record a hopeful reminder that nuclear war is not inevitable.

Though the pedal steel guitar is more closely associated with the sliding notes of American country music than Irish slow airs, Murphy marries the two with ethereal effect on Cuimhne Ghlinn.

And country music has indeed put pedal steel to excellent use for the better part of a century, but it also inadvertently monopolized steel guitar in the process — until recently, that is.