Many music stores sell banjo pitch pipes. Just make sure before you walk out of the store that the pipe has the notes you’ll need: G, B, and D. Tune to a piano.

The banjo became the backbone of American roots music and culture through minstrelsy — white America's most popular form of entertainment in the early 1800s – in which white performers ...

The beloved banjoist brings her Old-Time Revue tour to the Hollywood Bowl on June 18 amid a touchstone moment in the ...

Rhiannon Giddens talks about her love for the banjo and the largely Black history of the instrument, as explored in a new 10-part Wondrium series.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with researcher Joe Johnson and musician Jake Blount about the new Library of Congress guide to African American banjo music resources in its collection.

In 2019, he built a custom banjo for the Amazon TV series “The Underground Railroad” based on a drawing of string instruments from Jamaica published in 1707 and a watercolor drawing in South ...

RUSCOMBMANOR TWP., Pa. — This is a story about a boy, a banjo and a man known as "Butch." "Since he was a toddler, he was always interested in my dad's instruments and watching him play ...