The Banjo: Southern Roots, American Branches happens at UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday, Aug. 25, from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., with a concert to follow at 7:30 p.m. In 1961, Robert Cantwell was seduced by a banjoa ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

You scan the playlist — Schumann, Handel, Bach, and friends — and you wonder how this is possible. But no: John Bullard is serious, and although he plays the banjo, he does not view that as an ...

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 ...

In a quiet nook of Friendship Farm Park down in the fields of Nanjemoy, a group of music historians and banjo enthusiasts gathered to talk about the stringed instrument, which was documented in its ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was 1963 and 17-year-old John McEuen was hanging out with his best friend Steve Martin – yes, that Steve Martin – in Garden Grove when his older brother ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was 1963 and 17-year-old John McEuen was hanging out with his best friend Steve Martin – yes, that Steve Martin – in Garden Grove when his older brother ...