A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Ralph Stanley has seen "O Brother Where Art Thou?" 100 times by his count. Tonight will be 101. "It's a good movie," says the 85-year-old banjo icon, whose music is featured in the 2000 film. "I think ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Whitehouse Growing up and well into adulthood, my life was filled with my father’s music. He learned to play classical music ...

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 ...

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 ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...

The pandemic has shut down most of the summer music festivals. But that did not stop two banjo players from organizing an online banjo contest. That's because social distancing is the polar opposite ...