IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This banjo was made by an unknown ...

On Saturday, March 18, Maple Street Concerts welcomes Jonas Friddle and Andrew Wilkins in their debut performance as part of its concert series. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the historic ...

If there's any instrument in the quiver of American music that can simultaneously summon heartbreak, salvation and joy, it just might be the banjo. It's a simple mechanism of hoop, animal skin, neck ...

Cabinet card image of Horace Weston (ca. 1880s) posing with his top hat and a fretless instrument, possibly a Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town ...

The experience of those instruments eventually led Tev to the music of Erkan Oğur, the Turkish father of the fretless guitar. Stevig’s own fretless guitar is no more than a converted classical guitar ...

You might think that an entire album of clawhammer banjo playing would get a little tiresome in such a large dose. Thankfully, that’s not the case with Steve Baughman’s “O’er Quiet Lands Suspended,” a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LEWISTON — Robert Lloyd Webb, a historian of the banjo and a renowned ...