A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

Washington is closely associated with bluegrass and “old-time” music, as veteran listeners to WAMU or patrons of the Birchmere will tell you. But the city’s latest banjo export isn’t a reissue of, say ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...

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 ...

“A sweet stereo sound bath of fiddle tunes spiced with bluegrass, cajun, and honky tonk, and country classics” was once again heard at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival. One of many jams at ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) — Thirteen-year-old Owen Brockman fell in love with bluegrass music at a young age and is now a banjo prodigy. WKEFspoke with Owen to learn more about the teen star. I love banjo ...

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 ...

Alison Brown and her banjo have come a long way since her Stamford upbringing. The instrument has taken the 61-year-old on many journeys — through the professional bluegrass scene, through the ...