Up on stage at New York's annual River to River summer music festival, a four-piece string band is tearing through the song "Sourwood Mountain." The fiddle wails, the banjo frails and a few members of ...

Rhiannon Giddens is down at the river, carrying a flame of heritage, and she’s inviting anyone who wants to join her to come down and light their own wicks. Rivers are traditionally sites of salvation ...

The California musician uses ceiling hooks and precise timing to make the puppet tap along in perfect rhythm Her whimsical videos — including a recent reindeer-themed one with 11 million views — have ...

At first glance, Nitrograss might appear to be just another Asheville, N.C.-based bluegrass ensemble, albeit one with an incredibly talented banjo player. Charles Wood, the banjo player in question, ...

The Bangkok Trad Social happens on Saturday February 28 at Royal Oak Pub, and it's basically a jam session disguised as a gig. More than 10 bands take part, but here's the twist. Musicians form ...

Pushing boundaries is nothing new to Chris Pandolfi: as a student a Berklee, he was the first banjo principal at the renowned music school and he continues to play banjo in the Infamous Stringdusters, ...

It’s safe to say the Erin Feis festival hasn’t seen a musical act quite like We Banjo 3, the quartet from Galway, Ireland, composed of banjos and fiddles. The group plays a style that fuses American ...

MARSHFIELD – This August, for the third year in a row, award-winning Galway band We Banjo 3+1 brings its rich, extraordinary “Irish and Americana Music and Song” to Chestnut Center for the Arts. The ...

HARTVILLE Heading down the road to Quail Hollow Park around 6:15 on a Thursday night a string of five cars all turned left into the same parking lot. About half the people in the full lot, all of them ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...