Experience the excitement of the WMNF Live Music Showcase featuring Urban Gypsies of Florida and their unique bluegrass ...

Emanuel Paul played the violin, banjo, clarinet and guitar, but it was his tenor saxophone play that helped shape the New ...

A 1958 autographed photo of banjoist and guitarist George Guesnon. Credit: Gift of Richard B. Allen, Tulane University Special Collections, Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz Sign ...

TradFest is delighted to announce the inaugural Barney McKenna Banjo Bursary Award as part of next month’s festival, writes Rose Barrett. At a competition to be held on Sunday, January 25 in Howth, ...

The Very Day I’m Gone, The Cuckoo, Higher Rock, Ramble On, Soul Of A Man, The May Queen, Orphan Girl, Four Sticks, It’s A Beautiful Day Today, Down To The Sea, As I Roved Out, For The Turnstiles ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Plant will be touring the U.S this fall with his latest band of collaborators, the band Saving Grace. The one-time Led ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

Barney’s back. The iconic purple dinosaur is returning to the small screen for a new generation. Warner Bros. Discovery has picked up new CG-animated series Barney’s World for Cartoon Network‘s ...

Tributes have continued to pour in following the death of the son of The Dubliners’ Barney McKenna. Daragh Aherne Clarke (McKenna) passed away suddenly at his home earlier this week, and his funeral ...