Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

Both The Littlest Birds and Jami Lynn will take the stage tonight. The Littlest Birds is made up of Sharon Martinson on banjo, and David Heubener on cello. Jamie Lynn is a solo singer/songwriter ...

A collection of ambient soundscapes woven together with strong banjo melodies, Trance Banjo, the follow up to the first Trad Plus album Interference, demonstrates not only Pandolfi’s skill as a ...

Martin’s “Banjo Balm” overcomes this tendency with rich, warm tone and a slow tempo. The major sounding melody descends with each phrase, suggesting repose, up until the final coda where it ...

When Steve Martin asked singer-songwriter Edie Brickell to come up with lyrics for one of the banjo melodies the comic, actor and writer had composed in his latter-day career as a bluegrass ...

Inspired by long-lost folk melodies, gospel, opera and bluegrass, the electrifying singer and banjo player gives fresh voice to old American traditions Justin Davidson Giddens with her beloved ...

Actor Steve Martin touring album Love Has Come For You with singer Edie Brickell When Steve Martin asked singer-songwriter Edie Brickell to come up with lyrics for one of the banjo melodies the ...

Carter turned in his bass for a tenor banjo. He also turned in his rock persona, exchanging it for his true calling as Little Jack Melody, with a soapy voice that seems part Sinatra, part Randy ...

Unlike old-time, which emphasizes the fiddle and melody, bluegrass music’s distinctive features are instrumental solos and bluegrass banjo—a hard-driving style in which the player picks with ...