The banjo rules everything around Hank Smithwell, almost. He’s played it in multiple traditional outfits for almost a decade, added the banjo to area pop-rock acts, built the world’s only tribute to ...

Local residents now have a small army of world-class musicians at the ready to serve as their personal music mentors because of a newly announced program being offered by the Norwalk Public Library.

Last year I wrote about young banjoist Conlan Kerschner from Lancaster County who was, and still is, taking banjo lessons from veteran banjoist Keith Kupp in Adamstown. Since that article was ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Carrie Ezzell Webster and her 5-year-old son, Gabe, practice the fiddle in the main classroom of the school. Webster's dream of opening a local Folk Art School is ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When Karl and Jackie Dieterichs first opened their folk music shop in 1966, it wasn’t ...

“Bluegrass is much more complex and advanced,” says R.D. Eno, a Cabot musician who has played claw-hammer banjo for over 50 years. “This banjo style (clawhammer) is separate from the bluegrass world,” ...

Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...