Steve Martin and the Board of The Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced two winners for this year’s prize. Building on the ...

The resulting song sounded as old-timey as the machine. We’re outdoors today. We’re going to be recording live banjo onto a ...

It’s been called the “World Capital of Old-Time Mountain Music,” and for good reason, attracting world-class fiddlers, banjo players, cloggers, and bluegrass musicians. The Old Fiddlers ...

collections from traditional music scholars like John Harrod and Bruce Greene (Kentucky Fiddlers Collection), old-time banjo historian George R. Gibson (Knott County Banjo Collection), and photographs ...

“Folk music is not something you can predict,” he says. “You just have to stay tuned to it. For a long time, Minneapolis in particular was a hotbed of bluegrass banjo … Now everybody wants to play old ...