One hundred two years ago today, one of the most innovative and influential bluegrass musicians in the genre's history was born.

Dale Webber once thought he wanted to play the guitar. Then, one night in 1963, he stepped into an Oklahoma City nightclub and heard someone playing the banjo. "That's what I had been looking for," ...

Clawhammer banjo, while sometimes used to play classical, Irish or other musical styles, is basically music from the Appalachian mountains, and complements the primary instrument the fiddle. Eno, a ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present banjo royalty Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn at 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 8 (note new date), at UCSB Campbell Hall. Fleck is a 15-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the ...

Before Earl Scruggs, banjo players were not front men, but they were funny. In a tradition that goes back to the days of the minstrel show, the banjo player doubled as a comedian. Uncle Dave Macon, ...

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When you consider the banjo, you'd be forgiven for assuming that its just the guitar's twangier, countrier cousin. However, the instrument has recently shaken off its southern porch-front roots - you ...