The sound of banjos and bass will once again echo across Planet Bluegrass in Lyons as the RockyGrass Festival opens its 53rd edition Friday. Why it matters: The three-day bluegrass tradition is a ...

Best banjos 2025: Whether you’re into bluegrass, folk, alt, or rock, there's a banjo for you. Buying Guides. By Simon Fellows published 4 April 2023 Elevate your performances with a level of snap and ...

On five-string banjos, a geared fifth string tuner is usually preferable. Tuning: Geared tuners are best for beginners as they allow for easy tuning and can prevent the banjo from falling out of tune.

From Steve Martin to Grammy-winning group Mumford & Sons, banjos are suddenly everywhere in music, and its popularity is diversifying the instrument's image.

At the inaugural Biscuits & Banjos festival in Durham, founded by North Carolina’s own Rhiannon Giddens, WUNC music reporter Brian Burns hopped between more than a dozen performances and events.

Arthur Smith, a multi-instrumentalist whose song “Feudin’ Banjos” later became known as the popular “Dueling Banjos,” has died.He was 93. According to the Charlotte Observer, Smith, a ...

Eric Weissberg, Whose ‘Dueling Banjos’ Was an Unlikely Smash, Dies at 80 The soundtrack album for "Deliverance" spent three weeks at No. 1 and the single itself was No. 2 for four weeks in 1973.

Adia Victoria (right) and Mason Hickman (left) perform at the Pinhook during the first Biscuit & Banjos music festival on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Durham. “Everything Rhiannon Giddens touches ...