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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program is beginning on May 23rd for children ages 9 and older. Students can learn bluegrass music in a group with their teacher, and ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. At an early age, Michael Miles came to understand the cultural baggage that came from being a banjo player — that it was a primitive instrument and not ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...