It’s easy to pick up the style but difficult to master – but you don’t have to be a master to participate.” For Ingham, clawhammer banjo grows in interest in what he calls the post-traditional age and ...

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 ...

SALISBURY — If Bob Carlin were thinking of post-World War II banjoists to put on a Mount Rushmore, he says the faces carved in stone would have to include Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith, Bela Fleck and Pete ...

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs. Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

(Alec Stone Sweet is the fingerstyle steel-string ac guitarist here - applying clawhammer banjo technique to the guitar. Spacious, haunting & quite exquisite solo guitar setting of two "ole-timey" ...

"Subtle" is not a word often used to describe the five-string banjo. When most people think of the instrument, they're apt to conjure up Flatt and Scruggs' epic, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, or the ...

Banjo player Mark Johnson, who combines a clawhammer style with the three-finger style of bluegrass picking to create a unique hybrid sound, is the recipient of the third annual Steve Martin Prize… By ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This Sunday, Steve Martin headlines the final night of the Bluegrass ...