Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last weekend’s snow and this week’s bitter cold have forced the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum to postpone the start of its ...

Of all the places to discover the magical twang of the banjo - on a trip through the Appalachians, say, or at a bluegrass festival - Mark Rast found his true calling in one of the most unlikely places ...

The banjo rules everything around Hank Smithwell, almost. He’s played it in multiple traditional outfits for almost a decade, added the banjo to area pop-rock acts, built the world’s only tribute to ...

Last year I wrote about young banjoist Conlan Kerschner from Lancaster County who was, and still is, taking banjo lessons from veteran banjoist Keith Kupp in Adamstown. Since that article was ...

The “godfather” of progressive bluegrass, he grew up in New York, honed his skills in the mountains and flourished in Greenwich Village in the ’60s. By Alex Williams Roger Sprung, a banjo virtuoso and ...