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Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

The clawhammer banjo player expands his music to a trio on his upcoming album, Plainly Mistaken, out Oct. 5. Nathan Bowles' clawhammer banjo music has always lived in three planes of existence: Rooted ...

With a hunk of wood between their legs and a nationally acclaimed banjoist leading the way, a small group of eager students strummed the chords and sang the familiar folk lyrics on a recent January ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

Saturday afternoon’s performance by banjo duo Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn had the longest line of any I’d seen at this year’s Big Ears Festival. They are a popular, signature act for this year’s ...

As hard as it is to describe the unique power of Ralph Stanley’s performance Friday night at the Old Town School of Folk Music, it is even more difficult to explain exactly what makes the live Stanley ...

For over a decade Abigail Washburn, a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player, knew she wanted to help improve Chinese-American relations. She just never thought she’d be doing it through song.

Washington is closely associated with bluegrass and “old-time” music, as veteran listeners to WAMU or patrons of the Birchmere will tell you. But the city’s latest banjo export isn’t a reissue of, say ...

Nathan Bowles' clawhammer banjo music has always lived in three planes of existence: Rooted in the past, with a foothold in the present and an eye on the future. But as much as we think about folk ...