To Béla Fleck, the banjo isn’t just a musical instrument: it’s a navigational instrument, a divining rod that led the Manhattan-born musician through musical genres, little-known chapters of American ...

For Renée Fleming, returning to Spoleto Festival USA is something of a full-circle moment. She's joined by Béla Fleck for an ...

<!–Richie Dotson puts the finishing touches on a guitar repair. Dotson first started repairing stringed instruments out of a need to fix his own banjo. –>If you’ve got a sick banjo, Richie Dotson has ...

A 15-time Grammy Award winner, banjo master Béla Fleck excels in such a dizzying array of styles — from bluegrass, folk and jazz to classical, country and World Music — that it was fitting when he ...

He%27s released more than 30 albums since 1978 Fleck tours with just one banjo The Flecktones are on %22indefinite hiatus%22 LOS ANGELES — Banjo master Bela Fleck has released more than 30 albums ...

Riley Baugus is a 41-year-old banjo player from North Carolina, and for him, music could have stopped a century ago. He plays old-time music — the tunes from the Scots-Irish who settled and farmed in ...

In each session, Kruger will reveal secrets of his playing and offer advanced musical concepts that you can apply to your banjo playing. Kruger is a master 5 string banjoist and highly accomplished ...

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 ...

You can’t sling a cat in Memphis without hitting a bass player. But banjo players? That’s another matter. World-champion banjo players? There’s only one: Randal Morton. “My twin brother, Greg, and I ...