Actress Margot Robbie is set to get banjo lessons from English-American singer Marcus Mumford. The “Suicide Squad” actress thought of learning the musical instrument while self-isolating at home amid ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...

Banjo master Tony Trischka (in the video above) has opened his online school, The Tony Trischka School of Banjo. Not only does he offer lessons on the instrument, but also interacts with students by ...

Did you know that the banjo, which is associated with country and bluegrass music, is said to have African roots? Find out more about its history and discover other tidbits from the American West by ...

Learn a quick-start method to playing the banjo called up-picking, an old-fashioned technique that emphasizes melody and requires no musical experience or note reading. Up-picking is a great way to ...

Clawhammer banjo, while sometimes used to play classical, Irish or other musical styles, is basically music from the Appalachian mountains, and complements the primary instrument the fiddle. Eno, a ...

Coming off the high of recording her latest album, “Blue Sky Banjo,” musician and recording artist Mary Z. Cox is buzzing with anticipation for her “Evening of Banjo, Fiddle, and Beyond,” alongside ...