Last year, The String got a new opening theme tune. “Vera” comes from New York based mandolin virtuoso, composer and band ...

Cynthia Sayer is also an American Banjo Hall of Fame member and founding member of Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band.

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...

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Portsmouth Book & Bar will welcome the Jake Schepps Quintet on Friday, Jan. 30, the in what promises to be one of the most unique shows not only for the venue, but for Portsmouth as well. ' The ...

SAN LEANDRO — It’s 7:27 p.m. on Thursday night and 14 men assemble with their banjos on a makeshift stage in the back of Porky’s Pizza Palace. The restaurant, full of customers who are in between ...

With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play “Oh! Susannah” and other ...

A banjo-strumming father and son duo from Pearland lent its strings to a Guinness record attempt in Atlanta last month alongside 240-plus pickers saluting banjo legend Earl Scruggs. Dr. William Lee, ...