Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Whitehouse Growing up and well into adulthood, my life was filled with my father’s music. He learned to play classical music ...

Michael Nix will bring his New Classic Banjo Project to the Wendell Meetinghouse for a series of workshops and a solo ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Stewart Universal Favorite Custom Banjo, ca. 1890. The neck is made from cherry, and the instrument’s shell is made from maple. The heel plate is ebony. The tuning pegs and head, ivory tailpiece and ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...