LENOX -- The musicians at the Goat Rodeo Show Thursday evening at Tanglewood appeared to be having as good a time as the adoring fans who thronged the Koussevitzky Music Shed. As a matter of fact, a ...

Yo-Yo Ma rang me up a few weeks ago. (I’ve always wanted to write a sentence like that.) We talked about The Goat Rodeo Sessions, his Grammy-winning classical-bluegrass fusion ensemble with double ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, four string virtuosos — Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin — are coming back together for the ...

The music is rooted in the string-band aesthetics of bluegrass. But on the debut album by an all-star collective titled The Goat Rodeo Sessions, and the sophomore effort by Punch Brothers banjoist ...

Classically trained bassist Edgar Meyer began exploring links between orchestral and folk-based string music some 25 years ago, and the results have been bountiful: One-time bluegrass musicians like ...

An astounding group of virtuosos - Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin -- reunite live for the first time in nearly a decade. Joined by ...

Live performance from a group of celebrated string musicians, comprising cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolist Chris Thile. The group, which came together to ...

One member of this quartet has played for presidents of the United States, the others have played for bars full of drunks. And they sound great together. Peerless classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins ...

In a brilliant mashup of genres, Yo-Yo Ma shares the stage with three other world-class instrumentalists—bluegrass/classical bass player Edgar Meyer, Nashville fiddler Stuart Duncan, and mandolinist ...

"You look at it on paper and it's like, 'Gee, how come these people are getting together?!" Yo-Yo Ma recalls. "But we clicked immediately -- and partly because we basically share the same values.

One of my favorite albums of 2011 gets the live, in-theater treatment tonight for your listening and viewing pleasure.--- The disparate styles of bluegrass and classical are... One of my favorite ...