Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty One of the sounds most synonymous with the South is the twang of a banjo—barely edged out by the thrum of cicadas or the ...

The Osborne Brothers played together publicly for the first time in 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, it would be more than a decade before they finally got a break when they met Doyle Wilburn of ...

Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...

Stuart Duncan and Noam Pikelny describe their music as "genre-proof," which is a lot easier to say than "innovative bluegrass/old-time/blues/folk/swing/jazz ...

Whether you like the popular classics of Bob Dylan or want to get mellow with a mandolin medley or bust a move to some gutsy banjo riffs, the third annual Bluegrass and Folk Festival in Mukilteo is ...

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CHATHAM, N.Y. -- That "twangy," fast-paced, metallic sound draws so many musicians to the banjo. The sound is so unique that many musicians feel compelled to play it. That sound has a long history.