Each note Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost. Though the banjo is not exclusive to one musical ...

AUSTIN, Texas – An AP English teacher in Austin brings his corgi to school with him every day, and the internet is loving it. Sophie Vershbow posted a photo of her friend’s boyfriend, the English ...

We start in 1965, and Tony Trischka was a teenage banjo whiz from Syracuse, playing the traditional bluegrass number “Nine Pound Hammer” at a competition in Virginia. “Right in the midst of it I put ...

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 ...

Ireland – The conference room at the Old Ground Hotel was crowded with newly assembled musicians and traveling tourists - and 17-year-old musician Flynn Whitmore was a bit nervous. One of the most ...

There’s a new banjo sound emanating from the Green Mountains that is catching on with players and audiences. While the ripping-fast percussive sound of a banjo in bluegrass music is familiar to most, ...