In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated back to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

One of the most indelible moments in banjo history took place in the 1972 movie "Deliverance," when an odd-looking teen played the instrument from an old wooden porch. The song he played ("Dueling ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...

Nora Brown is only a teenager, yet she’s been playing banjo and guitar for over a decade. Putting her own spin on traditional roots music, Brown will bring her show (in duo format) to the Music Hall ...

Steve Martin, movie star, hasn’t had a film credit for two years and has no feature projects on the horizon. A celebrated author, Martin’s last book was the critically acclaimed 2010 novel “An Object ...

Noon. Doors open1 p.m. Performance to be announced2 p.m. Dance contest3 p.m. Banjo contest4 p.m. Supper break4:30 p.m. Traditional song contest6 p.m. String band contest7 p.m. Fiddle contest Matt ...