Irish supergroup We Banjo 3 makes its first appearance on Mountain Stage, recorded live at Charleston, W.Va.'s Culture Center Theater. In keeping with the misnomer tradition of Ben Folds Five, ...

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” ...

As an Irish banjo player with an appreciation for American picking, David Howley can speak with transatlantic perspective when discussing folk music and the banjo’s place in it. And as one-fourth of ...

The momentum that's gathered under the collective posteriors of We Banjo 3 is nothing short of Olympian. String Theory, their fourth album, sees them hurtle into the wide blue yonder with a kit bag of ...

The banjo comes commonly in three basic flavors: 4-string, 5-string and 6-string, and is arguably one of the most difficult stringed instruments to learn. When paired with a fiddle, mandolin, acoustic ...

"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a ...