Turn out, tune up, and drop the beat. A two-day music festival called “Psychedelix Americana” will celebrate the best progressive and genre-bending bluegrass in Brooklyn on April 11 and 12 at the Bell ...

In 2024, Béla Fleck founded the BEATrio, which set the genre-bending banjo master alongside harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez for a six-night residency at Blue Note New York. Today, ...

Portland multi-instrumentalist Tony Furtado has spent more than a quarter-century following his muse in the Americana-roots music tradition. From an early obsession with banjo that began at age 12, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Not many can claim to be an expert of the banjo. But Béla Fleck, regarded as one of ...

Prolific, peripatetic and polymorphic, Eugene Chadbourne takes the banjo to places no one else has ever imagined. His madly expressive and acutely idiosyncratic grasp of the instrument has unlocked ...

Guitar wiz Frisell, joined by Danny Barnes (banjo, guitar) and Keith Lowe (bass), has tracked eight original songs and seven traditional tunes here, bending a few genres to suit his typically… By ...

A Tulsa concert by banjo virtuoso Belà Fleck has become almost as regular as the changing of the seasons. But you won’t see the same show twice, said Fleck, who performs with his band the Flecktones ...

Moving on from death metal to punk-rock banjo, virtuoso player Danny Barnes will perform at McMenamins Old St. Francis School on Wednesday. Barnes, formerly of the Bad Livers, started out fascinated ...