They’re not just for frogs anymore. Whether it’s folk music, bluegrass, Americana, country, or whatever it is these guys are doing, the banjo is enjoying something of a renaissance period in ...

Banjo scholar and musician Dom Flemons performs at Swallow Hill in Denver and Boulder's Chautauqua Community House, Nov. 9-10 ...

By the 1960s, Roni had joined the group on banjo. According to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the group recorded two projects for Starday Records in 1962 and 1963, and then recorded for MGM and ...

“Obviously the banjo’s got African roots too. Country music came from people in the South and Appalachia, slaves and indentured servants from Europe, each gathering and trading stories.

Slow down and enjoy. The post Banjo, Folk, Country Songs – Driving The Crooked Road, Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail appeared ...

Joel Walker Sweeney (1810-1860), the country’s first “pop minstrel show artist ... four- and five-string banjos had become ...

Although she has tremendous talent on banjo, she also comfortably navigates the keys of her HP 12C finance calculator. After some time, Brown took a hiatus to write music. During that time ...

White male musicians representing country, bluegrass ... They are rewriting the banjo's cultural history and future, diversifying whose music and lives it represents, while sounding a new redeeming ...