Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto started out as a banjo player in his home city of Kyoto, teaching himself to play by listening to the only bluegrass record he owned, Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain ...

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...

Blues, country, folk, and hip-hop music relate in more ways than you know. Blues, country, folk, and hip-hop music relate in more ways than you know. One of the main instruments, used is county music ...

If folk/blues singer Elizabeth Cotten never wrote another song other than the enduring classics “Freight Train” and “Shake Sugaree,” she would still be famous in the annals of American roots music.

It’s impossible to say what brought man and banjo together at an early Aurora photography studio back in 1876, but it’s a question that’s been on the minds of local historians for many years – and one ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

The Chaco-clad, North Face-toting students don’t seem to notice the slow trickle of people entering the auditorium. Sprawled in hammocks or bustling to class, the Appalachian State University ...

Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform "Banjo Blues". Sarah Mae & The Birkeland Boys perform their original song "Bajno Blues" from their album It's Time.