It wasn't until enslaved people were brought to the South that the banjo as we know it today began to take shape. As with so many cornerstones of the South, Black people are at the heart of folk and ...

“There’s a running joke in our town,” Alan Sparhawk told a German reporter in 2011. “It says you can’t make a record in ...

Kyle Gray Young is a St. Cloud musician who runs an online banjo club with sheet music and a digital community. He also plays guitar and Finnish music, connecting with his heritage through his ...

And we got interested in music when they’d bring the old-timers around,” he said. Katelyn Aluise is an education and court reporter.

The Maryland Folk Festival as unveiled the first wave of artists performing on the Perdue Dance Stage as the festival returns ...

Galway native Enda Scahill shares his favorite haunts for trad music, from packed sessions at Tig Cóilí in the Latin Quarter to intimate clambake sets at Tigh Ned on Inisheer. Galway, with its ...

Savino is a pioneer in experimental banjo music in the psychedelic folk, rock and world music styles. Audiences will quickly “recognize the tenderness of Cat Stevens, the melancholy ...

Traditional music, often associated with American bluegrass, as well as folk or banjo, is defined as music passed down through a community or group. Steve Cooley has been a fixture in the bluegrass ...