Raleigh Wide Open, produced by PineCone, will feature performances from Americana, folk, gospel, and bluegrass artists over ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

To the casual listener, old-time and bluegrass might be hard to tell apart. Both genres of music predominantly feature ...

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts has received a lead gift of more than $10.1 million — the largest single ...

It’s always news when “Banjo Dan” Lindner, Vermont’s dean of bluegrass, issues a new CD, even more so when it is to be his last. And appropriately, “Spirits” celebrates spirituality. “This is a ...

Brown, 53, told more than 1,000 people who attended her installation ceremony that she is honored and humbled to serve as ...

One of Raleigh's most iconic cultural events returns with the new 2025 Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival, taking place on ...

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 ...

In addition to being a professor of sociology and criminal justice at SUNY Plattsburgh, Steve Light is also a respected scholar of banjo-ology. Light has mastered his art exploring the musical outer ...

Beyoncé's surprise new country album has kicked open the saloon doors to a new audience. While this may not be Beyoncé's first rodeo when it comes to country music, people are now exploring the genre ...

The Ryman Auditorium's 130th anniversary coincides with the 150th anniversary of historically Black Fisk University's Jubilee Singers. The two Nashville institutions are separated by the delineations ...