China's banjo scene: While there are a few banjo players in China such as in the southeastern provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, Shi noted that most of them treat the instrument like a guitar.

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 ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

On this day (October 29) in 1937, Sonny Osborne was born in Thousandsticks, Kentucky. After learning to play the banjo as a child, he formed a group with his brother, Bobby Osborne. Together, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the ...

Wielding a 1920s Gibson Florentine banjo and accompanied by a quintet of bluegrass musicians, Steve Martin is plucking, strumming and singing his way through an old song called Late for School, about ...

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys are a bluegrass band of brothers from New Jersey. The group, comprised of 17-year-old Tommy, 14-year-old Robbie, and 12-year-old Jonny Mizzone, first got into bluegrass thanks to ...

He developed the three-finger style that made the banjo a "front" instrument Scruggs and Lester Flatt were part of the musical team that made modern bluegrass The banjo, for years in the background, ...

To Béla Fleck, the banjo isn’t just a musical instrument: it’s a navigational instrument, a divining rod that led the Manhattan-born musician through musical genres, little-known chapters of American ...