When the first Wintergrass bluegrass music festival was hosted at the Tacoma Sheraton Hotel nearly 30 years ago, its co-founders didn’t know what it would grow to become. It was inspired by Louisville ...

The 25th annual Wintergrass Music Festival is coming to Bellevue. For four days in five venues throughout Bellevue’s Hyatt Regency, thousands of bluegrass fans will be able to enjoy music from over 30 ...

You don’t have to be a musician to love Wintergrass, but it helps. Pickers from throughout North America and the world will descend en masse in Tacoma on Thursday, when the annual four-day bluegrass ...

Wintergrass, the popular Tacoma bluegrass festival, is looking for greener pastures, city officials have learned. Tacoma needs to do what it can to keep the festival, which draws thousands of people ...

They’re pickin’ here, they’re pickin’ there, they’re pickin’ everywhere at Wintergrass, Tacoma’s annual total immersion into bluegrass music. There’s nothing quite like it anywhere in the world. One ...

Patrice O’Neill and Stephen Ruffo were the first to say it: “Bluegrass in Bellevue?” As the founders and organizers of Wintergrass, O’Neill and Ruffo were well aware of the perception of our Eastside ...

Bellevue isn't the likeliest of places for a folkie music festival, but it does rate a few lines in a new bluegrass song. "It's a hard place to suffer, and that's what gets me down," sings Kristen ...

The Wintergrass bluegrass festival, offering four days of pickin' and fiddlin' to fend off the midwinter blahs, is marking its 10th year with an opening-night concert Thursday on the new Chihuly ...

For the second year, Wintergrass, a venerable bluegrass festival for the region, is coming to Bellevue with more than 30 bands, including headliners the Blind Boys of Alabama and Michael Doucet, ...