Sometime last winter, Noam Pikelny grew restless. He’d recently wrapped up a tour with the Punch Brothers, plucking his banjo strings to songs from the group’s chart-topping album, The Phosphorescent ...

When Lorraine and Bennett Hammond aren't hanging out in their funky old Brookline home, trading a few banjo and mandolin licks back and forth at the kitchen table, they're apt to be giving concerts of ...

A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Ralph Stanley has seen "O Brother Where Art Thou?" 100 times by his count. Tonight will be 101. "It's a good movie," says the 85-year-old banjo icon, whose music is featured in the 2000 film. "I think ...

Riley Baugus is a 41-year-old banjo player from North Carolina, and for him, music could have stopped a century ago. He plays old-time music — the tunes from the Scots-Irish who settled and farmed in ...

With a hunk of wood between their legs and a nationally acclaimed banjoist leading the way, a small group of eager students strummed the chords and sang the familiar folk lyrics on a recent January ...

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 ...

WILLIS, Va.WILLIS, Va. — For just about all of her life, Rhoda Kemp has made beautiful music pour out of her banjo. But on a chilly day in March, the only sound her banjo made was the repetitive raspy ...

“I feel very fortunate to be playing this music in a time when I can be honest about who I am,” says Sam Gleaves. “We’re making so much progress now, in terms of equality for the LGBTQ community, [but ...

KENOSHA COUNTY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Ten years old, with a much older soul. Aidan Muse lives in Twin Lakes, where he spends a lot of time in his basement, strumming his favorite instrument. "We were ...

WILLIS, Va. (AP) - For just about all of her life, Rhoda Kemp has made beautiful music pour out of her banjo. But on a chilly day in March, the only sound her banjo ...