“We’re very cognizant of entertaining the audience and exposing them to the unique beauty of the banjo,” Brown told me during ...

Rhiannon Giddens has announced Biscuits and Banjos, her first-ever music festival. The three-day event will debut on April 25-27, 2025, in downtown Durham, N.C., Giddens’ home state. Through her ...

The classic rock checklist includes buzzy guitars, big booming bass, elaborate drums, twinkling keys, and a lead singer that can shock and compel. But banjo? Well, that’s a rarity. Nevertheless, some ...

When the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who are playing tonight at Appalachian State University, perform for schoolchildren, they always ask the kids where they think the banjo comes from, and they always ...

The "happy music" was contagious last Friday, causing folks at Sunrise Senior Living to smile and tap their feet. The Arizona Banjo Blasters performed tunes from the 1920s in an hour-long set at the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

(KRON) — The Peninsula Banjo Band has been entertaining the Bay Area since 1963. On the KRON4 Morning News, the band performs their unofficial theme song, “Just Because,” as well as “Five Foot Two, ...

Dixieland jazz has the slide trombone and rock music the electric guitar, but bluegrass wouldn’t be bluegrass without the five-string banjo. “You have old time string bands that have fiddles and ...

Cabinet card image of Horace Weston (ca. 1880s) posing with his top hat and a fretless instrument, possibly a Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town ...

Bert Murphy knows Mrs. Bailey’s lament by heart. A long time ago, she threw out husband Bill on a rainy night. Poor Bill managed to pack only a fine-tooth comb before his exposure to the elements.