Native to Africa and popularized in America, the banjo has gone through major transformation and evolution, and its history of becoming a mainstream music instrument is quite fascinating.

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 ...

LIVERMORE — Jim Bottorff settles into a chair in his living room and a pack of his fellow four-string banjo aficionados pile in with him. Some, like John Green, travel from as far away as Fiddletown, ...

When Cynthia Sayer was 13, she never dreamed that one day she would be the front woman of a jazz quintet, on a stage in Beijing, answering questions about playing the banjo. Mostly because at that age ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Dear Sun Spots: Does anyone in Sun Spots land have a plectrum banjo they may ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...