The iconic North Carolina bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs would have turned 100 on Jan. 6. On Saturday, the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will host a special concert to honor his memory with the ...

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 ...

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 Common Ground Downtown concert series will continue with award-winning banjo prodigy Victor Furtado in concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Carroll Arts Center. Furtado will be joined in concert by ...

Spending an hour on the phone with Béla Fleck is akin to climbing aboard a bullet train. One minute, you’re surveying the duo concerts he regularly engages in with wife Abigail Washburn, the setting ...

Soulful musicianship could be found throughout the Savannah Music Festival, even at a banjo concert featuring virtuoso picker Bela Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn, an expert in the claw-hammer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spending an hour on the phone with Béla Fleck is akin to climbing aboard a bullet train. One minute, you’re surveying the duo ...