Blues, country, folk, and hip-hop music relate in more ways than you know. Blues, country, folk, and hip-hop music relate in more ways than you know. One of the main instruments, used is county music ...

The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music gave ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...

Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform "Banjo Blues". Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform their original song "Bajno Blues" from their album It's Time.

Tony Trischka is one of the most influential banjo players in roots and bluegrass music. The Grammy-nominated artist has been at the forefront of the instrument starting in the mid-1960s and has ...

MAKANDA — Lew Hendrix bought his first banjo from a one-armed man in 1962 for $15. The Arkansas native had first picked up the guitar in high school, and by the time he started college, he’d shifted ...

Charlie Weber | Media Director, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Rhiannon Giddens is joined by Canadian-American musician-songwriter Allison Russell (Po’ Girl, Birds of Chicago), ...

It's safe to say, the four-string banjo is not one of the glamor instruments in jazz. There are a couple reasons for this: It's seldom used to solo. Let's face it-while we all talk about the ...