It seems at last the banjo's long winter (or perpetual summer, perhaps) may be over. With such practitioners about as Eugene Chadbourne, Joe Morris and Brandon Seabrook (to name a few), the plucky ...

Oregon natives like to tell visitors, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait a few minutes.” A similar admonition applied Sunday at the second day of the Playboy Jazz Festival: If you didn’t like a ...

This marks the 38th year for the North Carolina Jazz Festival, which returns to the Hilton Wilmington Riverside Feb. 1-3. Along with the many top players who are returning for the festival, there's a ...

Grammy winners banjo master Bela Fleck, bassist Edgar Meyer and tabla player Zakir Hussain composed “The Melody of Rhythm Concerto,” commissioned for the opening of the Nashville Symphony’s ...

Texas is a guitar-loving state. From T-Bone Walker to Stevie Ray Vaughan and on to Gary Clark Jr., Lone Star State string slingers are front, center and in the spotlight. Howard Elkins sits in the ...