Epiphone is celebrating American roots music in a big way for 2024 with a new Bluegrass Collection that features an Inspired By Gibson Earl Scruggs Golden Deluxe banjo, Mastertone Bowtie Open Back ...

As an Irish banjo player with an appreciation for American picking, David Howley can speak with transatlantic perspective when discussing folk music and the banjo’s place in it. And as one-fourth of ...

Did you hear the one about the banjo player who got all the gigs? Well, it’s no joke, the banjo is back, and it couldn’t be more popular. A mainstay of trad jazz, bluegrass and folk, the banjo’s ...

The momentum that's gathered under the collective posteriors of We Banjo 3 is nothing short of Olympian. String Theory, their fourth album, sees them hurtle into the wide blue yonder with a kit bag of ...

When putting together this top 10 of the most influential banjo players of all time, we needed to make a decision. Do we consider everybody that plays a stringed instrument with a drum for a body, or ...

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 ...