RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A renowned Bluegrass musician who called North Carolina home unexpectedly passed away at the age of 57. James "Jim" Mills died on May 3. He was born in Raleigh and started to ...

Nathan McEuen is carrying on not one but two family traditions. His father, John McEuen, is a legendary folk-country banjo player, most notably with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. But his uncle, William ...

Taylor Swift has long been known for her acts of kindness, in addition to her chart-topping music. But even before embarking on the Eras Tour — which has since become the highest-grossing tour of all ...

Story: Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III won a Grammy in January for his recent album paying tribute to an old-time country banjo player who died in 1931. Called High Wide and Handsome: The ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

A master improviser on banjo, he understood the genre’s roots but was also in the forefront of the later “newgrass” movement. By Bill Friskics-Warren Eddie Adcock, a virtuoso banjo and guitar player ...

Most people would say, "A banjo is a banjo," but there are two separate worlds of banjo lovers separated by one thin string. Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string ...

Rock, country and bluegrass music always spoke to Michael Sweeney, since he was a child. The Williamsville resident took up the banjo when he was 11 and tried to carry on in the footsteps of the old ...

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 ...

People often say that music is the great unifier. For instance, you can go to a concert and be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of strangers but everyone has at least one thing in common—love for ...