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 ...

Adia Victoria (right) and Mason Hickman (left) perform at the Pinhook during the first Biscuit & Banjos music festival on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Durham. “Everything Rhiannon Giddens touches turns ...

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 ...

PUTNEY -- Tony Trischka was immediately hooked after hearing the Kingston Trio song "Charlie and the MTA" over 50 years ago. "The banjo solo in there got me turned onto the banjo," he said, noting ...

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, ...

The guys in Boy Named Banjo look like the cover of either a bluegrass or men’s outdoor fashion magazine as they collect in front of a laptop to do an interview. They’ve absconded out of their ...

What's the story behind your favorite photo from the festival? It's hard to pick one because the "Sweet Molasses Juke Joint" party photos are giving so much energy, but since I can only pick one, I'm ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with researcher Joe Johnson and musician Jake Blount about the new Library of Congress guide to African American banjo music resources in its collection. A new generation of ...

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 ...

Americana band Boy Named Banjo will brings its quintet to Notes Live on Friday. The group’s roots go back to the high school days of Barton Davies and William Reames as they hung out in the parking ...