Each note Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost. Though the banjo is not exclusive to one musical ...

AUSTIN, Texas – An AP English teacher in Austin brings his corgi to school with him every day, and the internet is loving it. Sophie Vershbow posted a photo of her friend’s boyfriend, the English ...

Burroughs, Ornette Coleman, John Denver, Bela Fleck, Nancy Griffith, David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter), Alison Krauss, comic actor/writer Steve Martin, Natalie Merchant, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Pete ...

Did you know there’s a Banjo Hall of Fame? Well, there is. And local banjo player Mike Currao is in it. Or he will be, anyway. The Burnt Store Marina man will get inducted in the Oklahoma City hall ...

The Savannah Music Festival has been keeping banjo master Tony Trischka pretty busy lately. Trischka has been involved in a week of workshops, master classes and rehearsals that will culminate in an ...

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 ...

We start in 1965, and Tony Trischka was a teenage banjo whiz from Syracuse, playing the traditional bluegrass number “Nine Pound Hammer” at a competition in Virginia. “Right in the midst of it I put ...

Ireland – The conference room at the Old Ground Hotel was crowded with newly assembled musicians and traveling tourists - and 17-year-old musician Flynn Whitmore was a bit nervous. One of the most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Judy Banfield had lost contact with childhood friend Pete Wernick until she saw him at a summer reunion last year. Yes, she knew Wernick became a ...

Rob Bishline crafts banjos in a long white shop on the corner of 10th Street. Plenty of downtown traffic eases by each day — like folks dropping off their laundry next door or grabbing a pizza over at ...