It also made the song the perfect cover material for Alison Brown, a bluegrass wizard on the banjo. Brown called on another of modern bluegrass’ leading lights in Sam Bush to handle the mandolin ...

Banjoist Tray Wellington follows his 2022 album Black Banjo with his latest ... hip-hop-tinted bluegrass version of the tune on his seven-song project, Detour to the Moon, out July 12 via Mountain ...

Accompanied by the fiddle, it really found its footing in folk and bluegrass music. The banjo eventually fell out of favor—even after its link to African Americans was forgotten by the general ...

I went to the Miamisburg Bluegrass Festival and I saw ... Owen said he also enjoys playing rock music and other non-traditional banjo music on his banjo. "I do play other genres of music," he ...

Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in ... the “Father of Bluegrass,” on the Grand Ole Opry in December 1945, his signature three-finger banjo-picking technique, now known as ...

By Paul Grein Billy Strings was named entertainer of the year for the second year in a row at the 33rd Annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards ... group of the year, and banjo player of the year.