When seeing BEATrio in concert, drummer Antonio Sanchez, who positioned himself as the project's leader,  rather offhandedly quipped, “Banjo, harp, ...

Carbondale musician Natalie Spears will perform Friday night at The Arts Campus at Willits with a four-piece string quartet ...

Darrell Scott performs Friday, May 9, at the Spire Center in Plymouth, and he’ll be the first to tell you the setlist could ...

Giddens gives each tune its own distinctive color ... By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the five-string banjo, outfitted with an elaborate, fretted neck, became a mainstay of ragtime ...

I do this mouth music, and it’d be nice to have a traditional folk tune ... string bands for years, suddenly I’m the only brown person I see who doesn’t have a broom. I’m a banjo player ...

But Scott’s career is a constant search for new sounds, and in 2023 he released “Old Cane Back Rocker,” by The Darrell Scott String Band ... out trying to pen a tune for a certain genre.

Later he would perform a tune on the banjo ... a string tie and red roses embroidered on his shirt sang “Way Down in the Blue Ridge Mountains.” A harmonica player blew like a Category 5 ...

Long before he was flying “Eight Miles High” as the frontman for The Byrds, Roger McGuinn called Tarrytown home. “My folks had a rented house there. I went to second and third grade in Tarrytown. My ...

Gaddy, the Baltimore-based author behind “Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History.” Now in 2025 the banjo, along with other plucked-string instruments ... ‘Do you have a tune you’d like ...