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 "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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

(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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think banjo, and certain memories may come to mind, depending on your age: watching the Mickie Finn Show on NBC in 1966–which featured banjoist Don Val Palta; having dinner at a Shakey’s Pizza Parlor ...

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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 ...