Recent “serious” live music highlights included a true banjo wizard, a young string quartet sensation, and Santa Barbara ...

Steve Martin and Alison Brown appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase their instrumental bluegrass track "Let's Get Out of ...

Roots musician Kaia Kater crafts a sound that seems to hover right above a busy crossroad — a place where old meets new, where the North meets South, and where different cultures don't necessarily ...

(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, ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced nine new programs for this summer's Blossom Music Festival that range from classical favorites by Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to pop concerts featuring "An ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

You don’t usually see Sabrina Carpenter with an instrument in her hand, as on stage, she’s usually focused on singing and choreography. She can play, though. In fact, on her new album Man’s Best ...

A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Steve Martin and the Board of The Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced two winners for this year's prize. Building on the Board's mission to recognize excellence across the spectrum of banjo styles ...

Let's do a deep dive on this Southern classic. One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern ...