Banjo innovator Tony Trischka will bring stories, songs and memories of bluegrass legends to the Museum of Making Music in ...

Bluegrass music can transport listeners with the instrumental dexterity of the players, as those acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles, and other back-porch instruments churn away in mesmerizing fashion.

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

A featured player on “Hee Haw” and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty 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 ...

At 6:30 p.m. on any given Wednesday, local musicians fill the once-empty stage at the Carrboro restaurant and bar 401 Main with instruments — notably the banjo and guitar. For the next couple of hours ...

The long-anticipated opening of Velvet Banjo is finally here! The bar, pool hall and bluegrass venue will have its grand opening this weekend, October 12 and 13, with happy-hour pricing and free pool ...