"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 ...

A sought-after producer, acoustic-music ambassador and virtuoso banjo player, as well as the host of the Inside the Musician’s Brain podcast, Chris Pandolfi boasts some impressive feathers in his ...

Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...

Was out to see Lúnasa last week at a packed Sony Hall in Times Square and it was a tremendous evening. One of the greatest traditional groups of ...

“Bluegrass is much more complex and advanced,” says R.D. Eno, a Cabot musician who has played claw-hammer banjo for over 50 years. “This banjo style (clawhammer) is separate from the bluegrass world,” ...

When Nashville musicians Giri and Uma Peters prepared to travel to Raleigh, N.C., to perform at the Bluegrass Ramble in September, they packed their instruments, a week’s worth of clothes and the ...