Start tuning your instrument and reading tablature to learn beginner banjo songs and roll this easy bluegrass banjo chord song. So you always wanted to play bluegrass banjo, eh? You picked up a nice ...

Steve Martin's Tuesday night concert at Carnegie Hall was billed as "An Evening of Banjo and Bluegrass." But he couldn't resist adding some comedy to the mix, sprinkling some novelty songs into his ...

"The banjo generated nostalgia for experiences I never had, joy I was yet to experience and melancholy that was yet to come." - Steve Martin, on discovering the instrument as a teenager But seriously ...

Bluegrass music can transport listeners with the instrumental dexterity of the players, as those acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles, and other back-porch instruments churn away in mesmerizing fashion.

NASHVILLE -- Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

J.D. Crowe, an award-winning bluegrass banjoist, who helped establish the careers of country stars Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley in the 1970s and whose recordings with the Bluegrass Album Band ...

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 ...