Nora Brown is only a teenager, yet she’s been playing banjo and guitar for over a decade. Putting her own spin on traditional roots music, Brown will bring her show (in duo format) to the Music Hall ...

We Banjo 3, which originated in Galway, Ireland, plays a fusion of traditional Irish, old-time and bluegrass music that has been dubbed “Celtgrass.” Members of the group have captured “All Ireland” ...

CHAMPAIGN – Garry Harrison and the New Mules, who specialize in the traditional music of Illinois, will offer fiddle and banjo and clogging workshops on Saturday at Techline and the Phillips ...

At first glance, Nitrograss might appear to be just another Asheville, N.C.-based bluegrass ensemble, albeit one with an incredibly talented banjo player. Charles Wood, the banjo player in question, ...

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HARTVILLE Heading down the road to Quail Hollow Park around 6:15 on a Thursday night a string of five cars all turned left into the same parking lot. About half the people in the full lot, all of them ...

Carson Moore, Wayne Henderson Scholarship recipient. Photo courtesy of PacJAM. Press release from PacJAM: PacJAM (Pacolet Junior Appalachian Musicians) is entering its 5th year of helping to keep ...

15-year-old singer and banjo player Nora Brown is a rising star taking on traditional Appalachian music - she'll appear next Thursday as part of New York's music festival, globalFEST. globalFEST was ...

“We believe that tradition is not just a static body of knowledge. It’s the personal bond between generations of practitioners that allows culture to be transmitted and made meaningful in the present.

Daxson Lewis (Class of 2016) said that traditional music was heard playing at nearly any occasion or location, thanks to his paternal grandparents. Eventually, Lewis landed on his musical instrument ...