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 ...

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 ...

Irish supergroup We Banjo 3 makes its first appearance on Mountain Stage, recorded live at Charleston, W.Va.'s Culture Center Theater. In keeping with the misnomer tradition of Ben Folds Five, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...