Please check your inbox for your confirmation. At an early age, Michael Miles came to understand the cultural baggage that came from being a banjo player — that it was a primitive instrument and not ...

Béla Fleck is perhaps the most famous banjo player in the world. He's taken that instrument out of its folk and bluegrass traditions to play pretty much any kind of music: from jazz and pop to ...

When Seekonk resident Paul Poirier first heard his father-in-law play the banjo, he was hooked. “The first thing that reeled me in was my father-in-law, Pete DeBlois,” Poirier, 65, said. “He played ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

World War II Veteran John Halpin started playing the banjo when he was a young boy. He was inspired to learn how to play the instrument after watching his mother play the piano. “It’s happy music,” ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. Banjo pioneer Tony Trischka, one of the music world's most revered players, was inspired to learn the instrument about 45 years ago after hearing the Kingston Trio's "Charlie and ...