Noam Pikelny won’t be far from home when the renowned banjo maestro — a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic quintet Punch Brothers who now calls the town of Danby his home — brings ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

As a longtime admirer and friend of Yonder Mountain String Band and a former member of Leftover Salmon, banjo player Noam Pikelny holds a bona fide tie to the genre-expanding iterations of bluegrass ...

After more than two decades as a band, the Steep Canyon Rangers say their newest album, "Next Act", returns them to their ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

The “godfather” of progressive bluegrass, he grew up in New York, honed his skills in the mountains and flourished in Greenwich Village in the ’60s. By Alex Williams See more of our coverage in your ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...