After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

Tomatoes tried to kill him. But banjos saved his life. Keith Alessi tells that inspiring story everywhere he travels, ...

B.A. Parker has been trying to find her place in the banjo world. So this week, she talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee, Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an ...

SAN DIEGO — If your goal in life is to make the banjo cool again, winning a Grammy Award and teaming up with actor Steve Martin are two good ways to go. In this Zevely Zone, I went to La Jolla to ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

Thanks to a team of dedicated fans, you no longer need a $250 Nintendo 64 clone to party like it's 1998. Adorably goofy collectathon platformer Banjo-Kazooie is not only one of the N64's killer apps ...

At the heart of the game is the unlikely partnership between Banjo, a lovable bear, and Kazooie, a sassy bird who resides in his backpack. This dynamic duo not only provides comic relief but also ...

Roni Stoneman, banjo player and beloved "Hee Haw" star has died at the age of 85. Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children. She ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The fifth annual Bricktown Banjo Bash is next weekend, with live music and free admission, along with the Banjo Fest that lasts the whole weekend! This year’s performances will ...