Earl Scruggs’ seminal 1949 instrumental “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” placed the banjo front and center in the bluegrass genre. Along with guitarist partner Lester Flatt, Scruggs recorded more than 50 ...
The Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival is underway, bringing weeks of music, education, and community events to the New ...
Charlie Poole, a spiritual predecessor to musicians like Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia, was born March 22, 1892, in North ...
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 ...
Keith Urban is well-known for his prowess as a guitarist, but the singer-songwriter and instrumentalist is also talented at playing other instruments, as he recently demonstrated. The superstar was ...
"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a ...
JORDAN BANJO has revealed how boxing helped him KO the booze. Banjo — who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 alongside brother ...