There’s a new banjo sound emanating from the Green Mountains that is catching on with players and audiences. While the ripping-fast percussive sound of a banjo in bluegrass music is familiar to most, ...

Banjo master Béla Fleck will host his inaugural Blue Ridge Banjo Camp this August in Brevard, NC, where the Flecktones leader will join with several other banjo veterans to teach some of the ...

When Jayme Stone first took up the banjo 20 years ago, he, of course, made a point of listening closely to such masters of the instrument as the Seegers (Pete and Mike), Ralph Stanley, Butch Robins ...

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs. Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

SALISBURY — If Bob Carlin were thinking of post-World War II banjoists to put on a Mount Rushmore, he says the faces carved in stone would have to include Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith, Bela Fleck and Pete ...

PENDLETON -- Vern Marr attaches a carved maple neck to the body of a clawhammer banjo he's building in his cluttered Pendleton studio. This rodeo town might be better known for custom saddle makers ...