Dierks Bentley was joined by Hot Country Knights, Zach Top, the Band Loula and his mom at hometown concert in Phoenix on the ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Drums, a bass and a washboard lend the banjo music "an extra little kick," Pritchett said. Fellow band member Lulu Nicolosi has played the banjo mandolin since he was a child. "It's so much fun ...

The instrument's murky history doesn't stop there. The banjo hit mainstream culture through minstrel shows, where performers often donned blackface and used the stage to ridicule Black stereotypes.

Graduate students in music Ethan Schwartz (banjo) and Emma Mistele (piano) present a noontime concert of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century works for five-string banjo by British composers.

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 ...

HISTORIC DEUTSCHTOWN — The banjo might not have a reputation as the most elegant or prestigious of instruments, but for the members of the Pittsburgh Banjo Club, it certainly is among the most fun ...

The "happy music" was contagious last Friday, causing folks at Sunrise Senior Living to smile and tap their feet. The Arizona Banjo Blasters performed tunes from the 1920s in an hour-long set at ...

As Pulitzer Prize winning musician Rhiannon Giddens picks the banjo in the “Texas Hold’em” song on Beyoncé’s new country album, “Cowboy Carter,’’ it might be easy for some to think ...

By: Hazel Trice Edney. As Pulitzer Prize winning music ian Rhiannon Giddens picks the banjo in the “Texas Hold’em” song on Beyoncé’s new country album, “Cowboy Carter”, it might be easy for some to ...