Actor Ronnie Cox is seen tuning his guitar when a “simple-minded” 15-year-old boy sitting in a porch swing mimics every note Cox plays with a five-string banjo.

We Banjo 3 brings Irish folk music to Ludlow Garage Thursday, ... And as one-fourth of the Irish string band We Banjo 3, he can explain why a four-man band has that mathematically inaccurate name.

“Pete talked about the banjo being a string instrument derived from Africa that became used in Southern mountain music,” he says. “I was 22 or 23. I was already aware that there were four-, five-, and ...

The latter is a banjo-heavy ode to the singer's home state of Texas, and seems to be already causing controversy due to an Oklahoma country music station refusing a request to play the song ...

Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string strummers play jazz and Dixieland. This weekend in Raleigh, it is the strummers who rule. "Yes I got a banjo.

The award-winning quartet We Banjo 3 from Galway, Ireland, will highlight the free Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series concert on Aug. 6. The outdoor event, happening at Seventh Street and New York ...