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 ...

In search of that high lonesome sound, The Professors of Bluegrass sometimes trade chalkboards and laser pointers for fiddles and banjos. A disparate group of Yale University professors, ...

Bluegrass aficionados recognize the pivotal role of banjo instrumentation in crafting its vibrant sound. While instruments like fiddles, upright basses, guitars, and mandolins contribute significantly ...

"The banjo generated nostalgia for experiences I never had, joy I was yet to experience and melancholy that was yet to come." - Steve Martin, on discovering the instrument as a teenager But seriously ...

We start in 1965, and Tony Trischka was a teenage banjo whiz from Syracuse, playing the traditional bluegrass number “Nine Pound Hammer” at a competition in Virginia. “Right in the midst of it I put ...