Banjo-Kazooie got its start on the Nintendo 64 in 1998, back when the series' developer, Rare, was fully independent and primarily affiliated with Nintendo. The first eponymous game in the franchise ...

Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar face on television’s “ Hee Haw,” has died. She was 85.

A decade earlier, Stoneman became the regular banjo player for the Stonemans, a family band led by her father, Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman, a first-generation country star who, with Jimmie ...

Roni Stoneman, banjo player and beloved "Hee Haw" star has died at the age of 85. Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children. She ...

Turns out that she’s a good banjo builder, too. That meant that Traynham had two first-time instrument makers in his shop, separated by 75 years in age.

Fleck was gifted his first banjo by his grandfather when he was 15 years old. He had always wanted a banjo, he says, but “never would have had the nerve to get one.” On the train ride home, a stranger ...

Arizona might seem like an unlikely spot for such a banjo scholar to emerge. But that’s where Flemons first became entranced by the instrument after borrowing one from a friend and playing along with ...

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