Banjo Fest is taking place from Oct. 9 through 11 at the American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City. “This is like Christmas ...

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 ...

Let's do a deep dive on this Southern classic. 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 ...

A banjo played by John Lennon is being unveiled alongside a mosaic featuring nearly 1,300 images of The Beatles star to mark ...

Two years ago today, the country music world lost a legend when this innovative and versatile banjo player died at 85.

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...