Thom Henderson, SAIL High School music teacher, loves a good banjo joke, and he gives you extra credit if you laugh. “Banjos are showing up in places we don’t expect,” Henderson says while unzipping ...

Noam Pikelny won’t be far from home when the renowned banjo maestro — a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic quintet Punch Brothers who now calls the town of Danby his home — brings ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Vestal owns a recording studio, Digital Underground, where he engineers, produces, ...

The banjo, for years in the background, stepped out of the shadows in the steady hands of Earl Scruggs. Beyond his many recordings and appearances, the bluegrass music legend, who died Wednesday at 88 ...