At the age of 16, just when he was becoming serious about playing music, Jayme Stone discovered what he thought of as “roots” music: “Everything from Pete Seeger to Earl Scruggs to Béla Fleck,” said ...

Clear your thoughts of banjo-picking as happy music. Stop those toes from tapping. If you start humming the cheerful ripple of "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms," quit it. We're at the Corcoran Gallery of ...

You'd think places like Kentucky and Tennessee would be where you'd find hot banjo players, but New York has a few fine five-string players to be mighty proud of too, including Woodstock's Bill Keith ...

When autumn arrives there is always plenty of picking going on at Frecon Farms in Boyertown. Pick-your-own activities for visitors who want to select fruit right from the tree are always offered at ...

If bluegrass quintet the Steep Canyon Rangers were booked at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on their own, they'd likely be on the intimate Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. The Steep Canyon Rangers ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

No player in the history of the banjo has done more to free the instrument from the confines of bluegrass than New York native Béla Fleck. His innovative playing has melded the banjo with pop, ...

A doctor at UNC Hospitals is determined to do away with cold, impersonal medicine and to make his patients feel special - even if it means bringing along his banjo. A doctor at UNC Hospitals is ...

Doc Cullis is still picking the banjo at 85. Hundreds flocked to McDonald Farm in Sale Creek on Saturday for the first annual Family Easter event since Hamilton County purchased the nearly 2,200 acres ...