The opening notes of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” are quintessentially cinematic. The lilt of a seductive clarinet begins a recognizable birdsong. A brassy, deep trombone responds. The ...

Despite some intense weather on Friday, Palisade’s Bluegrass and Roots Festival still kicked off in time for the weekend.

The 18-time Grammy Award-winning musician will play with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as part of the Neranenah series, which honors Jewish musicians like George Gershwin.

The basic design of that homemade banjo, which descended from African ... Dixieland and orchestra in the era before bluegrass. It’s a testament to Giddens’ willingness to look the past in ...

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 ...

All the while, requests for her to rehash the most basic principles of that history ... which also features bluegrass banjo phenom Tray Wellington and bassist Nelson Williams.

Her extracurricular work tends to be more widely heard than her own albums, whether it’s her banjo playing on Beyoncé ... niche music know that it is not bluegrass. I started in bluegrass ...

Steve Martin, a renowned comedian, is also a celebrated bluegrass musician with six consecutive No. 1 albums. Martin is set to release a new album in 2025 with banjo player Alison Brown ...

Stringed instruments are on hand to try out: fiddle, six-string guitar, mandolin, 5-string banjo, and upright bass. Ukulele is also encouraged for the beginning jam. The regular bluegrass jam session ...

No lesson or tip is too basic to pass ... to a whole lot of bluegrass music. He’s more likely to have Chris Stapleton as his walk-up music than anything featuring a banjo or mandolin.

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Members of South Korean bluegrass group Country GongBang performing live, from left, bass player Keeha Song, vocalist and mandolin player Yebin Kim and banjo player Hyunho “Banjo Boy” Jang.