The banjo rules everything around Hank Smithwell, almost. He’s played it in multiple traditional outfits for almost a decade, added the banjo to area pop-rock acts, built the world’s only tribute to ...

Last year I wrote about young banjoist Conlan Kerschner from Lancaster County who was, and still is, taking banjo lessons from veteran banjoist Keith Kupp in Adamstown. Since that article was ...

“Bluegrass is much more complex and advanced,” says R.D. Eno, a Cabot musician who has played claw-hammer banjo for over 50 years. “This banjo style (clawhammer) is separate from the bluegrass world,” ...

Banjos and lessons: Dan of Lanark has a “spare banjo to loan” and would be glad to get Alan of Bethlehem Township started on the style of Bluegrass banjo. Dick of Bath also gives Bluegrass banjo ...

Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...

PUTNEY — It was 49 years ago that the Green Mountain Boys, from Putney, stepped into position to play music for a crowd of 800 people attending a banjo contest in Craftsbury Common. The boys were at ...