A four-day festival is being held in tribute to the centennial of the historic 1925 OKeh recording session in Asheville.

Despite the fact that he is only in his early 20s, Gregg Welty is in the midst of creating an ode to his past. The Mayville native is in the final stages of producing his debut album, entitled ...

Beyoncé's surprise new country album has kicked open the saloon doors to a new audience. While this may not be Beyoncé's first rodeo when it comes to country music, people are now exploring the genre ...

The lead single from Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated country album, goes under the musical microscope ...

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 ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

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 musical ...

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, listening to ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

Music trio Foggy Mountain Spaceship picked up their banjos for a cover of the Halloween theme song that’s a little country ...

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 ...

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