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 ...

Kyle Gray Young is a St. Cloud musician who runs an online banjo club with sheet music and a digital community. He also plays guitar and Finnish music, connecting with his heritage through his musical ...

B.A. Parker has been trying to find her place in the banjo world. So this week, she talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee, Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

The California musician uses ceiling hooks and precise timing to make the puppet tap along in perfect rhythm Her whimsical videos — including a recent reindeer-themed one with 11 million views — have ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll—first electrified by a Black woman in 1938—every major American genre ...

LOWELL — Dozens gathered in and around the Merrimack Repertory Theatre Saturday for the Lowell Summer Music Series’ 44th annual Banjo & Fiddle Contest. The contest brought musicians from all over the ...

LOWELL — Boarding House Park will be the site of many jam sessions throughout the day Saturday as the Lowell Summer Music Series’ Banjo & Fiddle Contest returns for the 44th year. The free event ...