When Lorraine and Bennett Hammond aren't hanging out in their funky old Brookline home, trading a few banjo and mandolin licks back and forth at the kitchen table, they're apt to be giving concerts of ...

ATHENS, Alabama – Winners in a variety of music competitions at the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention each year will earn the title “State Champion” in that division, a spokesman said. The ...

“Hello, hello, hello. Hi, hi, hi,” sang storyteller Susan Reed as she strummed a banjo, welcoming an audience of second-graders in the Library Story Room at the Lincoln Public Schools campus. Reed, an ...

Mark Hickler seems an unlikely fan of bluegrass and American roots music. But get the self-described “Yankee” talking, and you’ll see it’s in his very soul. “There’s so much power in that music,” he ...

Overall view of a fancy banjo, ca 1928. Made by Bacon & Day Co. of Groton, Connecticut for George Reams, a soloist, teacher and radio banjoist. It is a NePlus Ultra Model. From the collections of the ...