A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music. Fleck will be the featured artist with the Louisiana ...

Pushing boundaries is nothing new to Chris Pandolfi: as a student a Berklee, he was the first banjo principal at the renowned music school and he continues to play banjo in the Infamous Stringdusters, ...

Jul. 29—While Sprung enjoyed performing at high-profile venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, his friends said he got just as charged up playing improvisational jam sessions and jam parties in ...

A new CD presents previously unreleased recordings by Hobart Smith, a traditional musician from southwestern Virginia who could play just about any instrument. Stephen Wade, the producer and annotator ...

I was warned,” Patrick “Pappy” Biondo said. Wearing a black T-shirt and round, gold-rimmed sunglasses, the slim, tattooed 35-year-old leaned against a shaded park bench outside the Kellogg-Hubbard ...

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 ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Ed Gordon talks with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke about his accomplished career and his summer tour "Trio," which includes two other music masters, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and banjo player ...

The birth of banjo great Earl Scruggs — born 96 years ago on January 6th, 1924, in the Cleveland County community of Flint Hill, North Carolina — predated the debut of the Grand Ole Opry by less than ...

KENTUCKY, USA — The music produces images. Listen to a bluegrass record and the common themes appear: family, relationships, God and the beautiful state from which this music was born. Kentucky is ...