banjo

We've all heard it said that music is a wonderful thing for youngsters to study. Even those who will never consider doing it professionally, or even on stage, can still learn valuable lessons about discipline, attention to detail, and the

Concept albums are fairly prevalent in music history, the idea having been more recently adopted within the bluegrass genre. Scott Hopkins, a banjoist and music instructor based in Albany, New York has taken a creative step forward with his second

Banjo Blast... no, it's not the latest flavor from Mountain Dew. It's the new single from the banjo man in black, Todd Taylor. Known initially for his treatments of banjo in the rock 'n' roll world, this latest finds Todd combining

Last Friday evening (July 12), the small, approximately 100x80 foot park in downtown Erwin, TN, known as The Gathering Place, overflowed with local townspeople and quite a few musicians from both near and far. Lincoln Hensley, banjo player and leader

Joe Bonsall with his banjo - photo © Jarret Gaza The Oak Ridge Boys have announced the passing of their long time tenor singer, Joe Bonsall, from complications of ALS, known to many as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 76 years

In 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic, master banjoist Tony Trischka spent his time studying rare recordings of his hero Earl Scruggs informally jamming with the great John Hartford in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Though Trischka

Deering Banjo Company and the Gold Tone Music Group, together with Cindy Baucom and the operators of the Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest, have announced a most worthy tribute to bluegrass banjo legend, Terry Baucom, who we lost late

Since he was just eighteen years old, Daniel Grindstaff has played banjo for numerous top acts in bluegrass music, including Jim & Jesse, Bobby Osborne, Marty Raybon, and David Davis among others. On the aptly named, Heroes and Friends, Grindstaff has surrounded

Danny Stewart and Tom Nechville announce Nechville East Turtle Hill Banjo Company in Annapolis, MD has announced a special relationship with Nechville Banjos. We had reported recently on Nechville's move from their founding base in Minnesota to Tom Nechville's new home

Marvelous news from Patuxent Music! The Maryland label run by Tim Mindte has brought back some classic tracks from the late, and ever so great, Bill Emerson. Originally released as a series of three budget-priced LPs in the early '60s as