In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated back to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White ...

In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated back to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White ...

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.

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Saturday afternoon’s performance by banjo duo Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn had the longest line of any I’d seen at this year’s Big Ears Festival. They are a popular, signature act for this year’s ...

Steve Martin, movie star, hasn’t had a film credit for two years and has no feature projects on the horizon. A celebrated author, Martin’s last book was the critically acclaimed 2010 novel “An Object ...