This multi award-winning ensemble is among Scotland’s leading bands performing traditional and original music. The 5-member ...

Jul. 29—While Sprung enjoyed performing at high-profile venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, his friends said he got just as charged up playing improvisational jam sessions and jam parties in ...

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs. Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE -- His fame is such that he's referred to simply as Earl, and his fiery, rolling, three-finger attack as "Scruggs style." As the man who single-handedly transformed the banjo from a modest ...

Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In this video, he walks us through the instrument’s history — from West Africa to enslaved ...

Tom Azarian, a.k.a. Tom Banjo, has been kicking around Burlington’s musical community for decades. Affably gruff and indubitably experienced, he’s among the few local pickers who stuck with old-time ...

Banjo fans and talent scouts: It’s the third annual competition known as the Scott Street Five String Finals this Saturday, Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. at the CarMax Family Stage during the Richmond Folk ...

Elevate your performances with a level of snap and twang that only a banjo can deliver. Our pick of the best from Fender, Epiphone, and more When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Punch Brothers are bringing their unique strain of acoustic folk to The Hall in Little Rock for a Sunday show. The Grammy-winning quintet was started in 2006 in New York by mandolin player Chris ...

NEWTOWN — The folk music world is mourning the passing of legendary five-string banjo player, teacher and pioneer of progressive bluegrass. Roger Sprung, 92, who was known as one of the founding ...