Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...
Bear and a Banjo, the 8-song soundtrack for the groundbreaking podcast by the same name, released this morning, Friday, Dec. 6, on all streaming platforms. It is being made available under the Empire ...
The theme song for the Halloween franchise is almost as iconic as Michael Myers himself. That simple yet sinister tune makes me want to curl up on the couch and watch something scary. There are no ...
Two-time Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens said she learned the day after the Super Bowl that she has an instrumental track on one of Beyonce's new singles. Giddens said she recorded a few banjo tracks ...
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 ...
Pushing boundaries is nothing new to Chris Pandolfi: as a student a Berklee, he was the first banjo principal at the renowned music school and he continues to play banjo in the Infamous Stringdusters, ...
Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...
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 ...
A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...
I took a break from the late-night gigs and got a job at Werlein's music store. There were a couple of banjos hanging up with the guitars and it was my job to take care of them. As I was cleaning one ...
Halloween 2020 is finally here and it feels like games everywhere are celebrating the spooky season. Not only are there tons of must-play games to check out during Halloween, but there's also plenty ...