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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Rowan has shared the title track off his forthcoming LP, Calling You From My Mountain, which will be released on June 24 via Rebel Records. The stunning new single features Americana mainstays ...

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 ...

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 ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 24, 2010. In 2010, the four members of the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band joined Fresh Air for an in-studio performance, as well as a discussion of ...

After a good half-century in the business, bluegrass great Peter Rowan has earned the right to rest on his laurels, but with this second new album in two years, he shows no signs of slowing down.