Screen cap from Pinecone’s concert video. L-R: Jerron Paxton, Kaia Kater and Dom Flemons"; Young banjo players Jerron Paxton and Kaia Kater hail from places that are pretty far removed from the ...

Listen up, great young banjo players (especially girls) who are 18 and under: The deadline to submit a video of your playing for the 2015 Richmond Folk Festival’s Scott Street five string finals has ...

Teaching the next generation is the driving force at Hoggtowne Music. They have lessons for almost any instrument.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program is beginning on May 23rd for children ages 9 and older. Students can learn bluegrass music in a group with their teacher, and ...

Roots musician Kaia Kater crafts a sound that seems to hover right above a busy crossroad — a place where old meets new, where the North meets South, and where different cultures don't necessarily ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Banjo Fest is taking place from Oct. 9 through 11 at the American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City. “This is like Christmas ...

Gena Britt plays banjo, sings harmony and sometimes takes the vocal lead in the band Sister Sadie. She and the band look forward to performing in front of music fans in downtown Raleigh for the ...