Ryan Cavanaugh plays banjo as part of Bill Evans’ Soulgrass touring band. Bringing together jazz and bluegrass, and recommended to Evans by both John McLaughlin and Béla Fleck, Cavanaugh funnels ...

The Newton Theatre will welcome two acclaimed acts in early 2026: Jay & The Americans on Saturday, January 24, 2026, and Béla ...

The banjo is having a moment, and if Bill Evans has his way, the plucky instrument will one day be back at the center of American music. A tireless banjo champion for more than three decades as a ...

If bluegrass quintet the Steep Canyon Rangers were booked at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on their own, they'd likely be on the intimate Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. The Steep Canyon Rangers ...

As the title of Danny Barker’s autobiography made clear, he lived “A Life in Jazz.” As this week's Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival will make clear, he continues to inspire those who play New ...

Apollon Musagète Quartet, the dynamic young Polish chamber ensemble, performs a program of music by Schubert and Shostakovich at Jorgensen Performing Arts Center on the UConn campus in Storrs, ...

Maybe this is what Bela Fleck would sound like as an unknown playing coffee houses, jamming with other struggling musicians and trying out various unusual ideas designed to get noticed. Eric Holle’s ...

Judge Duane Peterson loved the law. But when the trumpets blared, the tubas thumped and the clarinets whined - that's when he was happiest. Peterson, a longtime Winona lawyer, Houston County district ...

The banjo is having a moment, and if Bill Evans has his way, the plucky instrument will one day be back at the center of American music. A tireless banjo champion for more than three decades as a ...