Clawhammer banjo, while sometimes used to play classical, Irish or other musical styles, is basically music from the Appalachian mountains, and complements the primary instrument the fiddle. Eno, a ...

No really, it's true. If you stumble upon the Hancock Recreation Center some Wednesday evening, you'll encounter a group of musicians sitting near a corner of the dance floor and playing banjos, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASHVILLE, Tenn. —Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with ...

I n their first CD as a duo, the father and son team of David and Nathan Gusakov has managed to meld several strands of traditional music into a coherent whole that could be the start of a trend in ...

As hard as it is to describe the unique power of Ralph Stanley’s performance Friday night at the Old Town School of Folk Music, it is even more difficult to explain exactly what makes the live Stanley ...

NASHVILLE -- Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

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 ...

When Nashville musicians Giri and Uma Peters prepared to travel to Raleigh, N.C., to perform at the Bluegrass Ramble in September, they packed their instruments, a week’s worth of clothes and the ...

Banjo virtuoso Mark Johnson — a master of the clawhammer style — is a familiar face in these parts. He is a Dunnellon resident, a friendly neighbor with a truck and the occasional coyote nosing around ...

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