NOLA.com

Composer works to make the classical world safer for banjo music

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music, to be performed in the New Orleans area from Jan. 8-10 ...
NBC Bay Area

Classical Banjo? Marin Musician Uses Time in Isolation to Release New Music

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85

A featured player on “Hee Haw” and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren ...