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 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The squat, heavy piece of machinery sitting on a shipping pallet has the rounded edges and clean lines of industrial design from the 1940s, but it looks like new in a coat of gray paint ...

For Will Brown, 10, "Picturing the Banjo," an exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is less about image than object. "Those old instruments were so cool," said the young Washingtonian of eight ...

Alison Brown and her banjo have come a long way since her Stamford upbringing. The instrument has taken the 61-year-old on many journeys — through the professional bluegrass scene, through the ...

Congrats are in order for one of Vermont’s truest troubadours, Rik Palieri. The 67-year-old banjo-slinging folk singer will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey Folk ...

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...