Surrounded by swaying cornstalks and the scent of mini-doughnuts, Debbie Schreyer’s cold-reddened knuckles curled around the fret board and her coarse fingertips slid fluently across the neck of her ...

CENTERVILLE, Ohio (WDTN) — One 12-year-old from Centerville is taking the national stage, playing the banjo with the skill of someone two or three times his age. “It’s what I love to do,” Owen ...

Saying that Danny Barnes plays the banjo is like saying Lionel Messi kicks a soccer ball. Barnes doesn’t just play the banjo—he plucks it, thrums it, claws it, bashes it, runs it through processors, ...

Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...

Greg Adams, Assistant Archivist at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, is a banjo scholar and enthusiast. Smithsonian Music connected with him to ask him about the history of ...

The banjo isn’t exactly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think of the classical concert hall, but Virginia native John Bullard has blended his background in bluegrass and Bach to bring ...

(CBS) - Kids these days! With their Internet and video cameras and musical talent... okay, enough prelude. How about you just check out this video of a young boy playing the banjo that will blow you ...

Great Performances takes a look at performers for whom comedy is not enough: more five-string banjo, please. LA Times: As actors and musicians, do you find there’s anything at all that transfers ...