LEWISBURG — Carnegie Hall announced Wednesday the return of its Appalachian Heritage music series with two eight‑week classes ...

Each note that 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. Blount is a professional touring musician who ...

Hannah Mayree: Songs of Reclamation is part of In The Making, a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight ...

There’s a new banjo sound emanating from the Green Mountains that is catching on with players and audiences. While the ripping-fast percussive sound of a banjo in bluegrass music is familiar to most, ...

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 ...

There was a very interesting thread on the thesession.org's discussion forum last week that posed the question “Who was the ...