In what will amount to an early Christmas present for bluegrass pickers and music lovers across Western North Carolina and ...

Tony Trischka is one of the most influential banjo players in roots and bluegrass music. The Grammy-nominated artist has been at the forefront of the instrument starting in the mid-1960s and has ...

The Chaco-clad, North Face-toting students don’t seem to notice the slow trickle of people entering the auditorium. Sprawled in hammocks or bustling to class, the Appalachian State University ...

Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto started out as a banjo player in his home city of Kyoto, teaching himself to play by listening to the only bluegrass record he owned, Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

This Saturday, Chester-based guitarist/singer Chris Kleeman and his trio perform blues and funk. On Friday the 18th, banjo great Tony Trischka and his quartet visit. Kleeman is fairly well known south ...

The Bridgewater State University music department has been holding improvisational get-togethers for musicians to play in a friendly, informal setting. “These music sessions offer a no-attitude, ...