The acclaimed singer-songwriter traveled through the past and present of American roots music with her own band, the reunited ...

The story of how global banjo explorer Joe Troop (formerly of Che Apalache) met Venezuelan harpist and all-around folk music master is testimony to the magic of global culture and a cautionary tale ...

Steep Canyon Rangers, the house band for Steve Martin and Martin Short, return to Bethlehem for a performance at Musikfest ...

Craft Recordings and Bluesville Records have teamed up with Acoustic Sounds to reissue two landmark blues titles, each ...

Rhiannon Giddens is the the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” ...

The 18-time Grammy Award-winning musician will play with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as part of the Neranenah series, which honors Jewish musicians like George Gershwin.

Folky five-piece Caamp is headed to Jacobs Pavilion for a sold-out show supporting the new "Copper Changes Color" album. Our Peter Chakerian talked with Evan Westfall last month about the new album ...

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 ...

Beginning at age 12, McCalla was on track to be a classical cellist, studying at the esteemed Juilliard ... because of the harmful racial stereotyping. But this music was Black music. What Black ...

Inspired by her Kentucky roots, Torke weaves a touch of Bluegrass into the classical form, incorporating a banjo-picking technique into the violin solo. The result? A piece with a distinctly ...

Dozens of patrons gather at the lodge to hear the group perform classic songs from the 1920s, 30s and 40s ... as Azinger first came to love the instrument when he heard it being played on television ...

1880s) posing with his top hat and a fretless instrument, possibly a Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town School of Folk Music Banjo Exhibition ...