Live Wire: Wendell to play host to banjo residency this month

Michael Nix will bring his New Classic Banjo Project to the Wendell Meetinghouse for a series of workshops and a solo ...
American Songwriter

The Steve Martin Banjo Prize Announces 2022 Winners

Martin and the Board of The Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced the two winners—Bill Evans of Alto, New Mexico, and Enda Scahill of Galway, Ireland. Building on the Board’s mission to recognize ...
The Guardian

Why Earl Scruggs was the Beethoven of the banjo

A trip to North Carolina to study bluegrass yielded this lesson: Earl Scruggs was the greatest there ever was I spent a couple of months last year studying bluegrass in North Carolina, and I learned ...
Paste

Seven Banjo Players on the 40th Anniversary of Deliverance

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...