In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. At an early age, Michael Miles came to understand the cultural baggage that came from being a banjo player — that it was a primitive instrument and not ...

Hand the banjo man a stringed instrument, and he'll pick you a tune fine enough to make Bill Monroe, the so-called father of bluegrass, perk up his ears. Hand him a cigar box, a car tag and a guitar ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — From his home workshop in Henrico County, Tyler Burke carefully crafts banjos. He makes the one-of-a-kind instruments by hand. Burke started by playing guitar then picked ...

Bob Carlin first played a banjo at age 15. Having already learned his way around other string instruments, it seemed like a natural fit. Nearly five decades later, he’s still picking and wants to ...

When Seekonk resident Paul Poirier first heard his father-in-law play the banjo, he was hooked. “The first thing that reeled me in was my father-in-law, Pete DeBlois,” Poirier, 65, said. “He played ...

The banjo in American music was traditionally associated with bluegrass and old-time until the early 1970s when Tony Trischka spearheaded a movement to innovate the sound. In his hands, the banjo ...

Béla Fleck has made a career with one instrument. Fleck has been playing the banjo on records since 1978. His mastery of the banjo as a solo artist, with symphonies and with his long-standing group ...

In this less than melodious celebration of the origins and history of the banjo, Dubois delivers a straightforward social history of the relationship between race and music. Drawing deeply on archives ...