The Contrarian Concert Hall & Theater in Festus is hosting open bluegrass jam sessions on the second and fourth Thursdays of ...

Start tuning your instrument and reading tablature to learn beginner banjo songs and roll this easy bluegrass banjo chord song. So you always wanted to play bluegrass banjo, eh? You picked up a nice ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

J.D. Crowe, a pioneering banjo player with his progressive bluegrass group the New South, died Friday morning, according to a post on the musician’s Facebook page. He was 84. “This morning at around 3 ...

Back in the late ‘50s or maybe the early ‘60s, before he was a bluegrass icon, Del McCoury had a day job driving dump truck for a quarry in Thomasville. One of his regular routes took him south on ...

The banjo book is a guide as well as instructional book that contain all the information, techniques and method needed to become a good banjo player. The Banjo books are your indispensable companion ...

FRAMINGHAM – The twang of hundreds of banjos and mandolins emanated from every corner of the Framingham Sheraton Saturday, as hundreds of bluegrass musicians filled the hotel with folksy tunes. “We’re ...

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys are a bluegrass band of brothers from New Jersey. The group, comprised of 17-year-old Tommy, 14-year-old Robbie, and 12-year-old Jonny Mizzone, first got into bluegrass thanks to ...

Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner ...

Bluegrass fiddles its way into your heart without the glitz of pop or the drama of rock. Its acoustic fire sizzles the crossroads of American music, and its tradition, while beginning to fuse with ...