Steve Martin teams with Alison Brown for a unique bluegrass cover of 'Old Town Road' featuring legendary artists.

Originating with enslaved Africans, the banjo is now being reclaimed by Black musicians in contemporary music ...

Martin and Brown worked together on the 2025 album Safe, Sensible and Sane.

FILE - Steve Martin poses for a portrait with his banjo in New York on Sept. 2, 2015. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File) (Victoria Will) NEW YORK – Get those banjos ready, because this isn't a ...

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 ...

The banjo keeps rolling along in 16th notes, the mandolin cuts sharply into the rhythm, and yet, there are no drums anywhere.

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 ...

There were a lot of goodbyes at the 2026 edition of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, including the bestowing of the inaugural ...

Comedy Legend talks his love for banjo music, the annual Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Prize, and his upcoming projects. By Rob LeDonne It was nine years ago when comedy legend Steve Martin and ...

Raleigh's Wide Open Festival began Thursday at NC State's Centennial Campus, bringing together music, food and art for a ...

The birth of banjo great Earl Scruggs — born 96 years ago on January 6th, 1924, in the Cleveland County community of Flint Hill, North Carolina — predated the debut of the Grand Ole Opry by less than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Steve Martin poses for a portrait with his banjo in New York on Sept. 2, 2015. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File) ...