There’s a new banjo sound emanating from the Green Mountains that is catching on with players and audiences. While the ripping-fast percussive sound of a banjo in bluegrass music is familiar to most, ...

There’s not much middle ground when it comes to clawhammer banjo, according to Adam Hurt. Pickers tend to have strong rhythm or melodies, but not both. “It seems to me that a lot of clawhammer banjo ...

Program and biographical notes by Charlie Faurot on container. "Old time banjo and fiddle tunes"; featuring Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, George Stoneman and Kyle Creed, with instrumental ensemble.

In The Jerk (which Steve Martin co-wrote and starred in, in 1979), his character Navin R. Johnson (a rhythmless white child raised by an African-American family) finally realizes he can dance. “It’s ...

With a hunk of wood between their legs and a nationally acclaimed banjoist leading the way, a small group of eager students strummed the chords and sang the familiar folk lyrics on a recent January ...