Banjo-wielding Maddy Simpson and Mairead Guy may have met in the halls of the Berklee College of Music in 2018, but it was at ...

At first glance, Nitrograss might appear to be just another Asheville, N.C.-based bluegrass ensemble, albeit one with an incredibly talented banjo player. Charles Wood, the banjo player in question, ...

Pushing boundaries is nothing new to Chris Pandolfi: as a student a Berklee, he was the first banjo principal at the renowned music school and he continues to play banjo in the Infamous Stringdusters, ...

It’s safe to say the Erin Feis festival hasn’t seen a musical act quite like We Banjo 3, the quartet from Galway, Ireland, composed of banjos and fiddles. The group plays a style that fuses American ...

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Native to Africa and popularized in America, the banjo has gone through major transformation and evolution, and its history of becoming a mainstream music instrument is quite fascinating.

Award-winning banjoist Jayme Stone is touring California with his latest release “Room of Wonders.” Pop this record on the CD player and the magic carpet ride is immediate. One swirls through the ...

The first live Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival is onstage this weekend at the Southside Preservation Hall. Brandi Waller-Pace established the festival to reclaim a tradition: Country ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

I took a break from the late-night gigs and got a job at Werlein's music store. There were a couple of banjos hanging up with the guitars and it was my job to take care of them. As I was cleaning one ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...