A four-day festival is being held in tribute to the centennial of the historic 1925 OKeh recording session in Asheville.

There’s a new banjo sound emanating from the Green Mountains that is catching on with players and audiences. While the ripping-fast percussive sound of a banjo in bluegrass music is familiar to most, ...

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 ...

The lead single from Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated country album, goes under the musical microscope ...

During the peak of the commercial powers, Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler looked to ZZ Top's boogie rock numbers for creative guidance.

When Bill Monroe came up with bluegrass–“this high, lonesome sound,” as people called it at the time–banjo players used the clawhammer style. They flailed with their fingers and hands to play chords.

Banjo fandom won a dream team pairing when virtuoso banjo players Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn wed in 2009. Fleck is a 15-time Grammy Award winner and arguably the world's greatest Scruggs style ...