Telluride Bluegrass is one of just a few places that soprano singer Renée Fleming and banjo player Béla Fleck will perform ...
When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...
On this day (June 4) in 2001, John Hartford died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 63. He was an expert guitar and banjo player who heavily ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky has lost a Bluegrass music legend. Renowned banjo player J.D. Crowe died early Thursday, according to a social media post by his son. He was 84. The Lexington, ...
Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...
The birth of banjo great Earl Scruggs — born 96 years ago on January 6th, 1924, in the Cleveland County community of Flint Hill, North Carolina — predated the debut of the Grand Ole Opry by less than ...
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other ...