A piece of bluegrass history that spent decades in the hands of a Portage area musician is preparing for a journey home. The late Ray Drain owned a Stelling Golden Cross banjo once played by ...

The quintet plays songs by Bob Dylan and Jackie Wilson; Ricky Nelson and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Johnny Cash and the ...

On this day (October 29) in 1937, Sonny Osborne was born in Thousandsticks, Kentucky. After learning to play the banjo as a child, he formed a group with his brother, Bobby Osborne. Together, the ...

For more than 60 years, Dan Lindner, better known as “Banjo Dan,” has been a fixture of Vermont’s bluegrass scene.

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

Born on this day (September 18) in 1953 in the small town of Louisville, Mississippi, Carl Jackson got his start in country music at a young age. At 14 years old, he was invited to play banjo for Jim ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...