Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the ...

Marc Fields and his production team are inside historian and collector Jim Bollman's storied Arlington home. They know the drill by now. This time, Bollman sits patiently on a stool with his rare, pre ...

The banjo gets a bum rap. A staple of American country music, its bright tone and rhythmic clangor threaten to overwhelm musical gatherings of other, milder string-band instruments, such as guitar, ...

The history of the banjo might not seem like an interesting subject, but attendees at a recent West Boynton Branch Library presentation would disagree. Tony Thomas, a vocalist, banjoist and banjo ...

When it comes to Black music, a significant part of our heritage is neglected, some would say out of ignorance and willful disregard of our past. One such genre is “old-time” music that includes blues ...

It was there she opened a studio and retail interactive center that focused on the history of the banjo and its roots. It was a different love that brought her to the area in 2013, when she married ...

An exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., focuses on the imagery of a central player in America's deeply conflicted racial history: the banjo. "Picturing the Banjo" features ...