Screen cap from Pinecone’s concert video. L-R: Jerron Paxton, Kaia Kater and Dom Flemons"; Young banjo players Jerron Paxton and Kaia Kater hail from places that are pretty far removed from the ...

Pete Seeger (1919 - 2014) was a giant of our time. Growing up in a musical family, he had a long and productive career as a folk song leader and social activist. Overall, he appears (or is otherwise ...

For the past two years, the Denver-based band Paper Bird has been playing to packed houses throughout the West. The seven-piece band mixes multipart harmonies with a deliberately vintage sound. It's a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TULSA, OKLAHOMA — The original song, the one ...

Randy Arnold played guitar; he wasn’t sure if he wanted to tangle with the banjo. But when he picked one up and plucked it, the sound hit him right in the breadbasket. “I bought one of those bottom-of ...

One of the most memorable moments in the 1972 film Deliverance is the banjo/guitar duel of Billy Redden and Ronny Cox. Musicians looking to add some of that plucky magic to their own compositions ...

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, ...