Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 29—While Sprung enjoyed performing at high-profile venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, his friends said he got just ...

Brooklyn Folk Festival returned to St. Ann’s Church for their 13th year over the weekend, and those without much musical skill still had the chance to get their hands on an instrument at the ...

I stood outside the front door of the Quattlebaum Funeral Home in Roanoke, Alabama and watched the hearse pull from the door, drive down the hill and turn left towards Rock Mills. About a dozen ...

(OWENSBORO, Ky.)-- A banjo played by folk music icon Pete Seeger during protest rallies in the 1960s has a new home at the International Bluegress Music Museum. California musician Carl Pagter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson ...

Cindy Howes talks with old-time player Jake Blount in this episode of the Basic Folk podcast. They discuss his work of elevating and revealing Black people’s massive contributions in traditional folk ...

When Enda Scahill and Fergal Scahill and Martin Howley and David Howley, two sets of brothers from Galway, Ireland, first heard the music of Johnny Cash and other influential classic American ...

A global pandemic sure makes for a strange time to release a new book. On the one hand, appetites for reading are high, as those in isolation look to books — along with Netflix and booze — to stave ...

NEWTOWN — The folk music world is mourning the passing of legendary five-string banjo player, teacher and pioneer of progressive bluegrass. Roger Sprung, 92, who was known as one of the founding ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...