Phoebe Sanders' traditional “jig doll is named Gilligan, after the 1960s sitcom 'Gilligan’s Island' " ...

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, ...

The banjo isn’t exactly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think of the classical concert hall, but Virginia native John Bullard has blended his background in bluegrass and Bach to bring ...

Ahead of his Bethlehem performance, Tony Trischka talks about playing the banjo, his new album, and working with Steve Martin ...

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 ...

Other recordings are “Banjo Gathering,” any CDs by Walt Koken, any albums released by the musicians mentioned above, and, in MacKenzie’s estimation, any track by Doc Watson that features his 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 ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Boulder musician is going viral after forming the unlikeliest bond between man and animal. “Oh, the comments are my favorite part, that…I’m the hillbilly ...