Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

Dave Johnston, co-founder of the Nederland, Colorado-based bluegrass group, Yonder Mountain String Band, has been helming a set of musicians throughout a long, steady and prolific career. The jam band ...

If you'd like to escape the presidential election, take your banjo or fiddle to this week's Appalachian String Band Music Festival, known as "Clifftop," in West Virginia. Summer is a season for ...

Dixieland jazz has the slide trombone and rock music the electric guitar, but bluegrass wouldn’t be bluegrass without the five-string banjo. “You have old time string bands that have fiddles and ...