Please check your inbox for your confirmation. At an early age, Michael Miles came to understand the cultural baggage that came from being a banjo player — that it was a primitive instrument and not ...

When Seekonk resident Paul Poirier first heard his father-in-law play the banjo, he was hooked. “The first thing that reeled me in was my father-in-law, Pete DeBlois,” Poirier, 65, said. “He played ...

Winston Marshall just wanted to play music. The bearded banjo-player and guitarist of the hot British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons didn’t intend to set the world on fire. He didn’t even mean to ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall says he is leaving the folk-rock group so he can speak his mind without the other members of the band "suffering the consequences." The musician announced ...

Taylor Swift has long been known for her acts of kindness, in addition to her chart-topping music. But even before embarking on the Eras Tour — which has since become the highest-grossing tour of all ...