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 ...

A reclamation project that takes the five-string banjo’s roots as an African instrument and tosses it into modern settings, Otis Taylor gathers an all-star blues crew to make a case for the instrument ...

Named after the comedian-turned-banjo-playing-musician, Steve Martin, two winners receive the prestigious award each year. Martin and the Board of The Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced the two ...

There was nothing jokey about the way Scruggs attacked his "fancy five-string banjo," as Opry announcer George D. Hayes called it. In a performance broadcast to much of the country but unfortunately ...