Spend the week of March 15-20 learning to make a gourd banjo at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View. This Ozark Folk School class, taught by well-known banjo maker Jeff Menzies from ...

Chris Prieto’s only prior experience with a musical instrument was playing saxophone in the fifth grade. After becoming enthralled by old-time and country roots music a decade ago, Prieto decided to ...

Kevin Enoch carves wood for a banjo. The Beltsville, Md., man says he likes the precision of crafting a banjo. “Guitars tend to be pretty plain, whereas banjos from the turn of the century are ...

Dr. Dena Jennings, a medical doctor and talented gourd builder, will lecture at the James Madison Museum Sunday, March 30 at 3 p.m. She will conduct an interactive overview of the elusive history of ...

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people. Paul Ruta Of all the melodic musical instruments in the world, perhaps none is more connected to the land it ...

Consider the evolution of the humble banjo. It morphed from a hollow gourd, strummed by African slaves, into an elegant toy for Victorian society ladies. Later, it grew into one of the mainstays of… ...

During Common Ground on the Hill, visitors to McDaniel College’s Westminster campus don’t have to walk far before hearing music. It could be ukuleles being played in a course on the second floor of ...