Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...

One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern drawl itself. But this distinctive instrument ...

Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...

The Osborne Brothers played together publicly for the first time in 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, it would be more than a decade before they finally got a break when they met Doyle Wilburn of ...

Bluegrass musician Dick Neal plays 5-string banjo, guitar and mandolin. He writes songs and produces CD recordings for other artists. Dick’s songs have been recorded by many singers, and his music ...

J.D. Crowe, an award-winning bluegrass banjoist, who helped establish the careers of country stars Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley in the 1970s and whose recordings with the Bluegrass Album Band ...

Come on down to the American Banjo Museum this Saturday as they host their Bricktown Banjo Bash this weekend bringing the sounds of bluegrass, jazz and much more to the streets of downtown Oklahoma ...

The ninth annual Blue Ridge Mountain Music Fest will be drawing on the Scots-Irish, African and uniquely American heritage of homegrown music from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Wintergreen Resort.