Guitarist Steve Kaufman, a three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championships, and four-time National Banjo champion Gary Davis will perform at 8 p.m. March 1 at Simpsonville Arts Center ...

I received the Steve Martin Banjo Prize in 2021, and I was inducted into the Banjo Hall of Fame in 2022. My album, "The Blue Book of Storyville," was the top jazz album of 2020 in The Times of London.

Doc Watson’s father, who was active in the family’s church choir, gave him a harmonica as a young child, and by 5 he was playing the banjo. He learned a few guitar chords while attending the ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy award-winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died ...

Watson first learnt the harmonica and banjo, then at 13 taught himself the guitar. Eventually, in his hands, the use of the guitar in American folk music expanded radically.

WASHINGTON CROSSING – On the heels of a world tour with legendary musician David Bromberg, renowned guitarist Mark Cosgrove will bring his unique and distinctive flat-picking style of play to… ...

What links the banjo and filmmaking, McEuen said, is a friendship he made decades ago. He befriended voice artist Russi Taylor, best known as the voice of Minnie Mouse in Walt Disney cartoons from ...

Doc Watson’s father gave him a harmonica as a young child, and by 5 he was playing the banjo, according to the Merlefest website.

After laying down some banjo and western swing, John 5 expanded to flamenco guitar. Don’t let yourself get too relaxed with his smooth sounds, because he exploded right into flatpicking after that.