Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They ...

When putting together this top 10 of the most influential banjo players of all time, we needed to make a decision. Do we consider everybody that plays a stringed instrument with a drum for a body, or ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – One musician in Springfield says give everything your best effort because you never know who could be watching. Alan Munde plays the banjo. Recently, he won the Steve Martin Banjo ...

A wood-burning stove is simmering in Tom Cussen’s workshop as he works on a 1930s Gibson tenor banjo. “It was in rag order when it got here,” says Cussen, whose business, Clareen Banjos, has been ...

The fifth annual Bricktown Banjo Bash is next weekend, with live music and free admission, along with the Banjo Fest that ...