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Steve Martin will be bringing back his annual Banjo Prize this fall with a new mission statement and two new partners. Originally conceived in 2010, the Banjo Prize awards $50,000 annually to a master ...

About seven years ago, Chicago banjoist and troubadour Michael Miles was playing the Quad Cities at night and appearing in schools there during the day. His busy itinerary also took him to the East ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For nearly a century, the musicians playing and promoting old-time string band and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount likes to mess with his audiences: He’ll swap the ...

The pandemic has shut down most of the summer music festivals. But that did not stop two banjo players from organizing an online banjo contest. That's because social distancing is the polar opposite ...