I represent a very, very tiny amount of people who play a replica banjo from the 1850s. That’s my axe — that’s what I play in all my shows.

In the song "Texas Hold 'Em," Beyoncé features live banjo and viola playing by Black country musician Rhiannon Giddens, who has been credited for highlighting that Black people created and played ...

The beloved banjoist brings her Old-Time Revue tour to the Hollywood Bowl on June 18 amid a touchstone moment in the reimagination of traditional Black music ushered in by Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" ...

“Some people call these ‘folk songs,’” he said while noodling on his guitar, with the singer-songwriter Pete Seeger playing banjo onstage beside him. “Well, all the songs that I’ve ...

What I’m getting at is, I used to play the banjo. I used to be pretty good, too: I’d go down to the local bar every month or so, sit around with the others, and make some real music for hours ...

One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the honeyed cadence of the Southern drawl itself. But this distinctive instrument ...

Video: Zachary Quinto Talks Playing the Banjo in CULT OF LOVE The show is running at the Helen Hayes Theater through February 2. By: Josh Sharpe Jan. 27, 2025 ...

Last year, he accomplished the dream. The banjo virtuoso and 18-time Grammy Award-winning musician will play his banjo-centric rendition of “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Atlanta Symphony ...

The banjo-playing teen star of the 1972 thriller film Deliverance, Billy Redden, 66, looks unrecognizable more than five decades after the movie's release as he turns his back on showbiz.