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, ...

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, ...

Cynthia Sayer, top New York City four-string jazz banjo player, returns to Holyoke on Saturday, September 28th for the fourth time. This time, Sayer will bring Her Hot Swing Trio, including ...

Q. I inherited this four-string banjo that was purchased by my stepfather in Toronto during the 1920s or early 1930s. There are names on the top end and it has its original case with the key for the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This banjo was made by an unknown ...

Most people would say, "A banjo is a banjo," but there are two separate worlds of banjo lovers separated by one thin string. Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string ...

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 ...

Charlie Weber - Media Director, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Rhiannon Giddens is joined by Canadian-American musician-songwriter Allison Russell (Po’ Girl, Birds of Chicago), ...

Earl Scruggs, the celebrated American bluegrass banjo player, is being remembered this Friday with a Google Doodle, during the month of what would have been his 95th birthday. Scruggs, who developed ...