At the 42nd annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest deep in the Santa Monica Mountains on Sunday, some of the most joyful and heartfelt bluegrass music did not come from the competition stages. Rather, it ...

LOWELL — Folding chairs clogged the halls of Lowell High School Saturday. The sound of string instruments bounced off blue lockers. Toes tapped. Knees bounced. Heads bobbed. Players of all ages and ...

A bluegrass jam session at Raleigh's Busy Bee Cafe Monday night gave the crowd a little taste of the banjo-picking, fiddle-strumming and accordion-pumping to come at the World of Bluegrass festival, ...

Fans of clawhammer-banjo player Abigail Washburn can rejoice. Not since her early days in The Sparrow Quartet have she and her banjo-strumming hubby Béla Fleck toured together, as they’re doing now – ...

Pete Seeger, the iconic banjo-strumming folk singer and activist who performed for migrant workers and presidents, died on Monday. He was 94. Seeger, whose songwriting credits include "If I Had a ...

Fast fiddling, banjo strumming, songs about lost girlfriends, with cod, potatoes and onions cooked outdoors in large kettles over a wood stove. The scene hearkens to Wisconsin, but Illinois residents ...

Our Lan’ (by Theodore Ward; produced by Eddie Dowling & Louis J. Singer) is one more earnest, inept effort to picture the U.S. Negro on the stage as something more than a banjo-strumming, ...

Pete Seeger, the iconic banjo-strumming folk singer and activist who performed for migrant workers and presidents, died on Monday. He was 94. Seeger, whose songwriting credits included "If I Had a ...