Clear your thoughts of banjo-picking as happy music. Stop those toes from tapping. If you start humming the cheerful ripple of "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms," quit it. We're at the Corcoran Gallery of ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

Violinist Tessa Lark takes flight in Sky, a violin concerto written just for her by Michael Torke. Inspired by her Kentucky roots, Torke weaves a touch of Bluegrass into the classical form, ...

NASHVILLE -- His fame is such that he's referred to simply as Earl, and his fiery, rolling, three-finger attack as "Scruggs style." As the man who single-handedly transformed the banjo from a modest ...

Today, Google's doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his 95th birthday on Sunday, Jan. 6. Friday marks five years since ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Walden S. Fabry Collection, courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar ...