When local artist Tim Bing was growing up with his brothers, Mike and Dave, just outside of Huntington, family and friends would often get together in Wayne County and listen to the “old timers” play ...

When Enda Scahill and Fergal Scahill and Martin Howley and David Howley, two sets of brothers from Galway, Ireland, first heard the music of Johnny Cash and other influential classic American ...

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled their ...

Cindy Howes talks with old-time player Jake Blount in this episode of the Basic Folk podcast. They discuss his work of elevating and revealing Black people’s massive contributions in traditional folk ...

NEWTOWN — The folk music world is mourning the passing of legendary five-string banjo player, teacher and pioneer of progressive bluegrass. Roger Sprung, 92, who was known as one of the founding ...

Introduction: Griots of piedmont North Carolina and portrait of songster Will Baldwin -- Signifying at the crossroads : African-American traditions of the folk banjo -- The ritual of minstrelsy : some ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Cello players, of course, really can't complain. And the surfer babe with the sultry voice ensures comfort -- by the acre -- as she peeks out from behind her board, Shore waters ...

Rhiannon Giddens, a folk artist from a three-member band based out of Boone, North Carolina, just won the seventh annual Steve Martin Prize for banjo music. Giddens' musical journey began in Ohio with ...

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