Michael Nix will bring his New Classic Banjo Project to the Wendell Meetinghouse for a series of workshops and a solo ...

A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Once known as banshaw or banza, frowned on by the well-to-do as fit only for the jig-dancing lower classes, the banjo originated in the Far East and Africa, arriving stateside in the late 1700s.

Chris Prieto’s only prior experience with a musical instrument was playing saxophone in the fifth grade. After becoming enthralled by old-time and country roots music a decade ago, Prieto decided to ...