If bluegrass quintet the Steep Canyon Rangers were booked at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on their own, they'd likely be on the intimate Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. The Steep Canyon Rangers ...

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

On hearing George Jackson play a fiddle tune from his new record Hair & Hide, you might think he’d lived in Appalachia all his life. In fact, the New Zealand-born fiddler and composer made his way to ...

MANSFIELD - Local jazz banjo wizard Steve Caddick will have an added distinction when he joins with Paul Poirier in hosting the All Frets national gathering of distinguished banjo pickers and stringed ...

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...

They just returned to their home in Nashville from the West Coast, where they played eight shows, in part as an experiment in parenting. Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn welcomed their second child, ...

The Grammy-winning banjoists welcome fellow artists including Vince Gill, Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne and more on the new ...

A new CD presents previously unreleased recordings by Hobart Smith, a traditional musician from southwestern Virginia who could play just about any instrument. Stephen Wade, the producer and annotator ...

A member of Leftover Salmon and John Cowan’s band prior to joining Punch Brothers, banjoist Noam Pikelny plays a 1941 Gibson PB-7 that is noted for its weight as much as its sound, with a custom Robin ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rebecca Roberts. Time now for your letters. We received a number of e-mails about our letter segment last week, especially the one particular letter about ...