Call it ragtime, Dixieland jazz or riverboat music, members of the East Bay Banjo Club call it “happy” music and have been playing it for 50 years. Every Tuesday night, banjo amateurs and ...
LOWELL — Folding chairs clogged the halls of Lowell High School Saturday. The sound of string instruments bounced off blue lockers. Toes tapped. Knees bounced. Heads bobbed. Players of all ages and ...
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 ...
When you pluck a banjo string, you trigger a vibration that resonates at a frequency unique to the geometry and material of the string. We can distinguish that frequency as a particular ...
With a cookie tin, a broom handle, weedwhacker string and a little hardware, we ambitiously set to work. Master instrument crafts-men? Maybe not. But the akontings and banjos we built Saturday at the ...
Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, the world's pre-eminent banjo players, perform twice in New Jersey this month. The husband-wife duo stop at SOPAC April 7 and Princeton University April 13. "This tour ...
The guys of Rascal Flatts joined the stellar lineup for Monday night's 'CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock' special, performing their No. 1 hit 'Banjo' for the three-hour prime time country ...
World War II Veteran John Halpin started playing the banjo when he was a young boy. He was inspired to learn how to play the instrument after watching his mother play the piano. “It’s happy music,” ...
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