Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...

Music trio Foggy Mountain Spaceship picked up their banjos for a cover of the Halloween theme song that’s a little country ...

Influential Banjo artist Tony Trischka will play his holiday-themed show at Club Passim in December. The concert is a ...

Martin has been making Bluegrass music since 2009, and it has become just as much of a pillar in his career as acting. His ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...

Charlie Tawaga can’t think of a better combination than pizza and music when it comes to attracting a crowd. For more than four decades, the Cupertino resident has recruited and trained generations of ...

Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...

Recent “serious” live music highlights included a true banjo wizard, a young string quartet sensation, and Santa Barbara ...

Let's do a deep dive on this Southern classic. One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern ...

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