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 ...

Chris Prieto’s only prior experience with a musical instrument was playing saxophone in the fifth grade. After becoming enthralled by old-time and country roots music a decade ago, Prieto decided to ...

With a hunk of wood between their legs and a nationally acclaimed banjoist leading the way, a small group of eager students strummed the chords and sang the familiar folk lyrics on a recent January ...

Riley Baugus is a 41-year-old banjo player from North Carolina, and for him, music could have stopped a century ago. He plays old-time music — the tunes from the Scots-Irish who settled and farmed in ...

Program and biographical notes by Charlie Faurot on container. "Old time banjo and fiddle tunes"; featuring Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, George Stoneman and Kyle Creed, with instrumental ensemble.

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 ...

WILLIS, Va.WILLIS, Va. — For just about all of her life, Rhoda Kemp has made beautiful music pour out of her banjo. But on a chilly day in March, the only sound her banjo made was the repetitive raspy ...

Stephen Wade, the producer and annotator of a new CD called In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes, describes more about Hobart Smith and Fleming Brown and how these recordings came to be made: ...

Steve Martin will be bringing back his annual Banjo Prize this fall with a new mission statement and two new partners. Originally conceived in 2010, the Banjo Prize awards $50,000 annually to a master ...