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The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced the opening this week of America’s Super Picker - Roy Clark, their exhibit showcasing the career of the popular multi-instrumentalist and singer from Virginia. Many music fans in the US know

If I were a casting director looking for someone to play a mad scientist, Ned Luberecki would be my guy. I can picture him in a white lab coat, huddled over an experiment, with an evil grin and a devious

Ned Luberecki is surely among the most talented and creative artists we have in bluegrass music. It doesn't matter if he is driving the banjo right through the Becky Buller Band, sharing clever stories from the stage, or hosting one

This interview with Béla Fleck was conducted shortly after last year's Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Jen Hughes spoke with him by phone not long after the festival, which featured a reunion set with The Flecktones. Jen talked with Béla about that,

The Band Of Ruhks has brought its former Lonesome River Band members vibe full circle with the recent addition of Brian Fesler to the group. He has stepped in to the spot vacated by John Meyer who had played with

Banjo aficionados and Earl Scruggs devotees, in particular, will be enthused, nay, excited, by the news of a forthcoming book about the banjo innovator, Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Earl Scruggs’s career as a banjo player

When a Danny Barnes album shows up in the mail, you have no idea what to expect. His creativity and musical adventures have kept him from being pigeonholed into any specific genre or style. So as you open his new

Mike Snider and Mark Johnson on the Grand Ole Opry - photo by Nicole Christianson Florida's Mark Johnson, inventor of the clawgrass style of banjo, had a big moment last weekend when he traveled to Nashville to appear on the Grand

Noam Pikelny is not only a banjo player extraordinaire. On his his upcoming Rounder album, Universal Favorite, we learn that he is also a very capable vocalist. And based on this short film created to explain the basis for this record

Emily Phillips is a third year at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, pursuing a degree in Anthropology. She is also an accomplished old-time fiddler, and a student of the music of noted Ozark fiddle and banjo player, Billy