“He kept it under his bed for 20 years,” Detroit News design writer Maureen Feighan told appraiser Jerry Anderson about her father and his 1920s banjo at a recent Trash or Treasure appraisal held ...

To many friends and acquaintances in southern Minnesota, Lowell Schreyer was a retired journalist who played the banjo. In the “banjo world” however, Lowell Schreyer was a giant. He traveled the world ...

LIVERMORE — Jim Bottorff settles into a chair in his living room and a pack of his fellow four-string banjo aficionados pile in with him. Some, like John Green, travel from as far away as Fiddletown, ...

Cynthia Sayer and Terry Baucom have been named as the 2023 recipients of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize for Excellence in Banjo & Bluegrass, the annual award administered by The Freshgrass Foundation, ...

The banjo gets a bum rap. A staple of American country music, its bright tone and rhythmic clangor threaten to overwhelm musical gatherings of other, milder string-band instruments, such as guitar, ...

DOVER — The Friends of the Dover Public Library will present Peter Mezoian in concert Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall. Mezoian, a Maine native, plays the four-string banjo, which exists ...

When you talk about the banjo in Irish music, one name always comes up first.Barney McKenna, otherwise known as “Banjo Barney”, the late Dubliners ­legend whose playing transformed the instrument from ...

Georgette Twain Sieff passed away in Reno, Nevada on January 4, 2016 at the age of 90 with her daughter at her side. Georgette was born June 10, 1925 in Martinez, Ca. to George W. and Cecilia ...

Contact this contributing writer at [email protected]. Nostalgia still sells, especially if you’re a member of the Kettering Banjo Society. Since getting its start in the early 1970s, the group ...