One of the wildest "show must go on" stories you'll ever hear. Tanner Horton (lead guitar, vocals) and Ashton Bowling (cajon) recently sat down with us on the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast and talked ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

On this day (October 9) in 2023, legendary banjo player Buck Trent died at the age of 85. Before he passed away, Trent built a lasting legacy with his versatile musical talent and innovative thinking.

Traveling Ireland by bus. With a dozen banjo players. And jokes. What could be better? Gavin McNutt, Flynn Whitmnore, Matt Bergen and Enda Scahill played tunes at the Cliffs of Moher in Western ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. Banjo pioneer Tony Trischka, one of the music world's most revered players, was inspired to learn the instrument about 45 years ago after hearing the Kingston Trio's "Charlie and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buck Trent, 85, a well-regarded banjo player, steel guitarist (among many instruments) and groundbreaking entrepreneur -- whose ...

Banjo innovator Tony Trischka will bring stories, songs and memories of bluegrass legends to the Museum of Making Music in ...

(CBS News) - You don’t usually associate the sound of a banjo with a view of New York City, but with Steve Martin, it all seems to work. He played for “Sunday Morning” at his apartment last month, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bluegrass banjo player and comedian Roni Stoneman warms up backstage for the lunch show of the Nashville Nightlife dinner theater ...

Earl Scruggs’ seminal 1949 instrumental “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” placed the banjo front and center in the bluegrass genre. Along with guitarist partner Lester Flatt, Scruggs recorded more than 50 ...