PUTNEY — It was 49 years ago that the Green Mountain Boys, from Putney, stepped into position to play music for a crowd of 800 people attending a banjo contest in Craftsbury Common. The boys were at ...

Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum’s group lessons are scheduled to start back up today, Aug. 6. Offerings include a “Bluegrass Basics Class” for students ages 6-8, where participants will play ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

The list of people local bass player and sound engineer Glenn Keefe has played or worked with since making music a career is a who’s who of the Americana and bluegrass world. It’s an enviable list, ...

Bluegrass aficionados recognize the pivotal role of banjo instrumentation in crafting its vibrant sound. While instruments like fiddles, upright basses, guitars, and mandolins contribute significantly ...

A sought-after producer, acoustic-music ambassador and virtuoso banjo player, as well as the host of the Inside the Musician’s Brain podcast, Chris Pandolfi boasts some impressive feathers in his ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

Bluegrass music legend and Lexington native J.D. Crowe has died. Crowe died early on Dec. 24 at the age of 84, according to Kentucky Country Music Facebook page. His son confirmed Crowe’s death, ...

There was nothing jokey about the way Scruggs attacked his "fancy five-string banjo," as Opry announcer George D. Hayes called it. In a performance broadcast to much of the country but unfortunately ...

The Banjo: Southern Roots, American Branches happens at UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday, Aug. 25, from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., with a concert to follow at 7:30 p.m. In 1961, Robert Cantwell was seduced by a banjoa ...

Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...

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 ...