Originating with enslaved Africans, the banjo is now being reclaimed by Black musicians in contemporary music ...

Grammy Award-winning musician Alison Brown is coming to the Jackson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 16. She is known for her innovative approach to the banjo, mixing bluegrass ...

Buck Trent, who invented the electric banjo and played on Dolly Parton's biggest hits, died three years ago today at age 85.

Mark Johnson of Dunnellon was inducted into the American Banjo Hall of Fame.

As anticipated, Sunday night’s Super Bowl was an overstimulating American capitalist fever dream where the jock and cheerleader got their happy ending, ads pushed the advent of AI, Usher provided a ...

Johnny Butten considers himself a banjo player first. That made his victory Sunday at the Iowa State Fair all the more surprising. Butten, a native of England who now lives in Nebraska, was named ...

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, ...

In Southwest Virginia, traditional Appalachian string band music has been passed down for generations. Now, students at the ...

Walden S. Fabry Collection, courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar ...

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 ...