Marc Fields and his production team are inside historian and collector Jim Bollman's storied Arlington home. They know the drill by now. This time, Bollman sits patiently on a stool with his rare, pre ...

One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern drawl itself. But this distinctive instrument ...

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 ...

Special to The Sun Jul 19, 2014 Jul 19, 2014 What do you call perfect pitch? If you can throw a banjo through the window and onto the garbage truck! My brother-in-law, a musician, told me this joke.

The banjo gets a bum rap. A staple of American country music, its bright tone and rhythmic clangor threaten to overwhelm musical gatherings of other, milder string-band instruments, such as guitar, ...

Press release from The Center for Cultural Preservation: The Center for Cultural Preservation, WNC’s cultural history and documentary film center, launches the 2018-19 Keeping the Fires Burning ...

Banjo Fest is taking place from Oct. 9 through 11 at the American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City. “This is like Christmas ...

MONTPELIER — The air was filled with the sound of banjo music as players plucked the strings of a Vermont-made banjo from the early 1900s at the Vermont History Museum. The museum put on a ...

Last year, a person asked if I knew anything about an Elmiran named Frank Converse. Instantly, I thought of sneakers. Might sneakers have been invented in Elmira? No, the person said — nothing to do ...

The Utah Attorney General’s Office suspended its multimillion dollar contract with the Park City-based surveillance company Banjo after the CEO’s involvement with the Ku Klux Klan and other white ...