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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Béla Fleck turns 68 today. The Grammy-winning virtuoso, called 'The World's Best Banjoist,' has spent decades pushing the banjo far beyond bluegrass.

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 ...

When Steve Martin quit standup three decades ago for a career in the movies, he swore he would never perform live comedy again, so stressful did he find being on stage. But tonight, at the Highline ...

A featured player on “Hee Haw” and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren ...

Throughout his career, bluegrass banjo master J.D. Crowe selflessly made room in his band the New South for innovators. Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, and Jerry Douglas all played in the group, which, under ...

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, ...