When Lorraine and Bennett Hammond aren't hanging out in their funky old Brookline home, trading a few banjo and mandolin licks back and forth at the kitchen table, they're apt to be giving concerts of ...

Most of the other musicians jamming this evening also play the Appalachian (or mountain) dulcimer. But others play a ...

yndi Lauper cradles one in photographs on her Web site. Aerosmith, known for hard rock songs and power ballads, incorporates one into its music. And, in the latest Martin Scorsese tale of urban unrest ...

WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) – Bluegrass musician Homer Ledford, an Appalachian band leader who crafted hundreds of banjos and guitars, died Monday. He was 79. Ledford died of an apparent stroke at his home ...

Kevin Enoch carves wood for a banjo. The Beltsville, Md., man says he likes the precision of crafting a banjo. “Guitars tend to be pretty plain, whereas banjos from the turn of the century are ...

It’s an instrument bound to Smoky Mountain folklore and culture, and Monday night, the dulcimer will be the focal point of a performance at the Blount County Public Library. At 7 p.m. in the main ...