The banjo rules everything around Hank Smithwell, almost. He’s played it in multiple traditional outfits for almost a decade, added the banjo to area pop-rock acts, built the world’s only tribute to ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When Karl and Jackie Dieterichs first opened their folk music shop in 1966, it wasn’t ...

Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...

“Bluegrass is much more complex and advanced,” says R.D. Eno, a Cabot musician who has played claw-hammer banjo for over 50 years. “This banjo style (clawhammer) is separate from the bluegrass world,” ...

PUTNEY — It was 49 years ago that the Green Mountain Boys, from Putney, stepped into position to play music for a crowd of 800 people attending a banjo contest in Craftsbury Common. The boys were at ...