An antique banjo and an electric guitar worth a total of $3,500 were taken from an unlocked car parked in the 100 block of Mallery Avenue overnight Tuesday, according to Elgin police. Underwhelming ...

Jul. 29—While Sprung enjoyed performing at high-profile venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, his friends said he got just as charged up playing improvisational jam sessions and jam parties in ...

Doc Watson enjoyed legendary status among American roots musicians. A highly influential guitarist, he adapted many of the fiddle tunes of his Appalachian roots to a new flat-pick idiom. He served, ...

Jen Sygit grew up listening to an eclectic mix of music – from Elvis to Cat Stevens to Led Zeppelin. Perhaps that’s one reason she likes doing what she calls a hodge-podge of styles. “I do folk ...

The Folk Shop, a music store known around the Southwest for its hard-to-find and vintage instruments, has a new owner. Longtime KXCI radio host Milo Solujic bought the store in July from Paul ...

‘Banjo Fred” Starner, an economics professor and banjo-playing folk singer who documented hobo music and culture, has died. He was 72. Starner, of Winnetka, died Oct. 25 at a West Hills rehabilitation ...