Banjo player Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Myer are two important current figures in American music. They got together in the NPR studios to play some of the banjo and bass music they take out on tour.

Our pals at Metal Injection have a great gallery today of the twenty coolest guitars they spotted at NAMM 2015, which includes this guy, who is not only the single most fashionably-dressed man I have ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven sat down in 1803 to write his “Triple Concerto,” he did it the old-fashioned way, working alone and featuring three traditional classical instruments in the solo roles: ...

Anyone looking in the window of Mama Java’s Coffee House in Evanston on Tuesday night would have seen a string band on stage, and since the instruments were guitar, banjo and bass, the assumption ...

Great Performances takes a look at performers for whom comedy is not enough: more five-string banjo, please. LA Times: As actors and musicians, do you find there’s anything at all that transfers ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. William Boucher was a drum maker and ...