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To help promote his brand new album, Great Big World, Tony Trischka has released an online video. Tony Trischka - A Day On Tour follows our banjo hero for a day performing last year with Béla Fleck, Noam Pikelny, and several others,

During January's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, Washburn introduced several new instrument models that should be of interest to bluegrass and acoustic musicians. Their R360K offers a resonator guitar with a parlor sized body, with a shaded spruce top and back

Progressive banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh has released a second single from his new series of bluegrass/fusion series, Back Country. This latest is the title track from the Internet-only project. Featured are Cavanaugh on electric banjo, Bill Evans on saxophone, Mark Egan

North Carolina banjo player L.W. Lambert passed away on January 23, 2014, at his home in Olin. He was 87 years old and his health had been declining for a while. Luin Wilford Lambert, Jr  was born April 18, 1926, in

Tony Trischka has also shared some thoughts on the passing of Pete Seeger. He writes from the perspective of someone who admired Pete greatly for his music, his political passions and activism, and as a fellow human traveler. I grew up

Jens Kruger, banjoist, composer and the 2013 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music, has shared his thoughts on the passing of Pete Seeger, and how Pete's music touched he and his brother as

Pete Seeger, known to the world variously as a utopian idealist, a communist propagandist, a union agitator,  a passionate environmentalist, or a folksinger, died last night. He was 94 years old. To fans of the banjo, however, he will always be

Although old-time music has recently experienced a surge in popularity, most of the groups who bill themselves as old-time are of the string band variety, with a focus on banjo and fiddle music. An instrument that’s often neglected in the

The Darrell Webb Band has brought Brandon Green on to play banjo. He did his first weekend recently on a tour through Kentucky. Green is on the faculty of the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee

Quick response from Skaggs Family Records with regard to a new banjo player for Kentucky Thunder... We are told that Justin Moses will perform with the band through the end of January, and that Cory Walker will then take over temporarily