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 ...

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 ...

At the 42nd annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest deep in the Santa Monica Mountains on Sunday, some of the most joyful and heartfelt bluegrass music did not come from the competition stages. Rather, it ...

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, ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

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 ...

LOWELL — The green grass at Boarding House Park will feature bluegrass this weekend as the 41st annual Lowell Banjo and Fiddle Contest will challenge pickers and delight visitors. The Saturday, Sept.

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 ...

A lonely musician in North Carolina has a YouTube hit on his hands, after sharing a “quarantine love song” with Americans stuck at home amid the coronavirus outbreak. Banjo picker Andy Eversole of ...