Bringing another Nintendo classic to PC, the community has delivered with Banjo-Kazooie via the Banjo: Recompiled project ...

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.

Banjo-Kazooie gets a surprising new lease of life as fans recompile the N64 classic to run natively on modern PCs, Linux ...

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 ...

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 ...

ONA — In February 2025, local banjo whiz Gibson Davis, of Ona, will turn 19, marking his last spin around the sun as a teenager. Still, at 18, while Davis is no longer a kid, he is at the perfect age ...

Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall says he is leaving the folk-rock group so he can speak his mind without the other members of the band "suffering the consequences." The musician announced ...

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 ...

Rock, country and bluegrass music always spoke to Michael Sweeney, since he was a child. The Williamsville resident took up the banjo when he was 11 and tried to carry on in the footsteps of the old ...

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 ...