Christmas is a time to celebrate a birth. It also became a time to celebrate a rebirth Friday as banjo great Tony Trischka helped Listen Live Music in Macungie mark a second start under new leadership ...

Violinist Tessa Lark takes flight in Sky, a violin concerto written just for her by Michael Torke. Inspired by her Kentucky roots, Torke weaves a touch of Bluegrass into the classical form, ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...

Steven Wade's new CD Banjo Diary Lessons from Tradition. Smithsonian Folkways It’s hard to think of anyone who knows more about the banjo than Stephen Wade, the roots music expert who has played, ...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...

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 ...