On its 20-acre riverside property north of Lyons, Planet Bluegrass hosts aspiring pickers and songwriters at its pre-festival ...

At fifteen, his professional music career began with the Ray Leach Orchestra on trombone and guitar. On banjo he performed on the Arthur Godfrey Show, The Perry Como Show, and the Pat Boone Show with ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

Spotify—as a professional musician, I hate Spotify ... [Recording] was: microphone for my banjo, microphone for his fiddle, microphone for the outdoor sounds, and that’s it.

having won the banjo contest at Ossipee Valley Music Festival in 2006. He also played dobro, guitar, mandolin, and upright bass at a top-tier professional level, and could sing all the parts.

The business’s early focus was banjos, where it quickly came to rival established makers such as Bacon & Day, Lange/Paramount, and Vega-Fairbanks, becoming the Epiphone Banjo Company in 1928.

In your career, you've worked with a wide range of professional musicians and bands–Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jess Williamson, The Blind Boys of Alabama–playing guitar, playing the banjo ...

The name actually comes from the lute, a 15th century French instrument that looks like a bloated banjo. People who ... with endorsements from professional musicians. Adam Day, Day Violins owner ...

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation By the 20th century, the classic five-string banjo had faded from African-American culture as an increasingly professional generation of black musicians migrated ...

It’s a hook that has brought players, coaches, managers, referees, scouts, authors, musicians and fans together ... “Don’s first professional coach was Murray Henderson and the occasion ...