ANCHOR INTRO: The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad says its ultimate purpose is to make the world more musical. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says you can get your hands on an electric banjo and ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

Comedy Legend talks his love for banjo music, the annual Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Prize, and his upcoming projects. By Rob LeDonne It was nine years ago when comedy legend Steve Martin and ...

A l'âge où les adolescents veulent briller sur TikTok, une New-Yorkaise de 16 ans, enfant prodige du banjo, fait fièrement résonner un instrument importé par des esclaves africains, avant que des ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Samedi après-midi, dans le cadre de la Fête de la musique, Jean-Christophe Prau a entraîné le public avec son banjo, accompagné, à la guitare, de son complice Denis Uguen. Au programme, badinerie de ...

Né en studio, The Banjo Consorsium s’est tranquillement transformé pour s’adapter à la scène. Le résultat est évidemment différent de ce que Banjo Consorsium avait proposé sur son démo Le Début, sorti ...

Many musicians are reaching out from isolation on balconies, in condos or the outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Italian tenor Maurizio Marchini sings “Nessun dorma” from his balcony while the ...