Tim Weed is used to the funny looks he gets when he tells people he plays classical music on the five-string banjo. In particular, he remembers the reaction he got from a European media mogul when he ...

Bela Fleck will perform his "Banjo Concerto" with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. (Contributed photo) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The next Huntsville Symphony Orchestra concert ...

Comedian Steve Martin joined the Philadelphia Orchestra for a remote performance over Father's Day weekend. Martin played the banjo during Saturday's HearNOW: At Home Gala, a free virtual concert that ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced nine new programs for this summer's Blossom Music Festival that range from classical favorites by Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to pop concerts featuring "An ...

Cleveland Orchestra What: Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Copland, Adams, Gershwin and Fleck. When: 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday; 7 p.m. Friday. Where: Severance Hall ...

DANVILLE – A banjo player and a symphony orchestra – as Arte Johnson used to say on "Laugh In," ver-ee in-ter-es-ting. Buddy Wachter, a virtuoso banjo player, will join the Danville Symphony Orchestra ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

On Oct. 4, Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck displayed jaw-dropping virtuosity in his performance as soloist in “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a packed Music ...

Baltimore native Andrew John "Buddy" Wachter will be the featured soloist for the concert to be held at Chippewassee Park, adjacent to the Tridge in downtown Midland. A banjo player hailed as "the ...

Other weekend events include an FM Symphony Orchestra concert for kids, a new show by female artists at the Plains Art Museum ...

PEORIA — Eight members of the Central Illinois Banjo Club serenaded 15-time Grammy Award winner Bela Fleck as he arrived at the General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport on Thursday ...