Each note Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost. Though the banjo is not exclusive to one musical ...

AUSTIN, Texas – An AP English teacher in Austin brings his corgi to school with him every day, and the internet is loving it. Sophie Vershbow posted a photo of her friend’s boyfriend, the English ...

Edward Goldsmith Although he was born in London and raised in Cambridge, Edward Goldsmith thinks more fondly of America than ...

We start in 1965, and Tony Trischka was a teenage banjo whiz from Syracuse, playing the traditional bluegrass number “Nine Pound Hammer” at a competition in Virginia. “Right in the midst of it I put ...

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 ...

There’s a new banjo sound emanating from the Green Mountains that is catching on with players and audiences. While the ripping-fast percussive sound of a banjo in bluegrass music is familiar to most, ...

Ireland – The conference room at the Old Ground Hotel was crowded with newly assembled musicians and traveling tourists - and 17-year-old musician Flynn Whitmore was a bit nervous. One of the most ...